The general state of medical and chirurgical practice, ancient and modern, exhibited; : shewing them to be inadequate, ineffectual, absurd, and ridiculous, particularly in consumptions, asthmas, nervous, gouty, bilious, scorbutic, scrophulous, rheumatic, and in many other disorders, external as well as internal; and more rational, elegant, speedy, effectual, and lasting methods of cure, by means of diet, simple medicines, aërial, aetherial, magnetic, and electric influences, effluvia, medicines, baths, vapours, and applications, ―recommended. To which are added a great number of recent and remarkable cases and cures, never before published. / By James Graham, M.D.

James Graham

Date:: 1778

Credit: The general state of medical and chirurgical practice, ancient and modern, exhibited; : shewing them to be inadequate, ineffectual, absurd, and ridiculous, particularly in consumptions, asthmas, nervous, gouty, bilious, scorbutic, scrophulous, rheumatic, and in many other disorders, external as well as internal; and more rational, elegant, speedy, effectual, and lasting methods of cure, by means of diet, simple medicines, aërial, aetherial, magnetic, and electric influences, effluvia, medicines, baths, vapours, and applications, ―recommended. To which are added a great number of recent and remarkable cases and cures, never before published. / By James Graham, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ ] If I had not. Sir, been apprehenfive of difpleafing you; and * r ' * i • v of giving occafion to your jealous rivals and envious antago- nids, to lay that you required certificates to edablilh your Medical reputation, I Ihould certainly have publifhed in the Public N ews-Papers, the fadts I here relate ; becaufe I think it is the lead a perfon can do, who owes to you, under God, not only the happy prolongation of her days, but even the pre- fervation of her life. The publication of a cafe, of a nature fo very extraordinary as the prefent, will be of fo much real fervice to mankind, that I cannot have the lead objection to your printing this Letter, containing certain fadts, of which I myfelf was an eye witnefs. Your Patient herfelf is fo very fenfible of your fuperior merit, and great goodnefs to her, that fhe allures me, Ihe will not ceafe, through her whole life, to pray to God that you may continue profperous in your profeffion, and very happy in all your concerns. 1 am. Sir, Your molt refpeftful, and moll obedient humble fervant, Park-Houfe, Widcomb, p. T. P A R I S iiear Bath, May 15, 1777. ' J To /

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