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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« E **9 ] dicines and Applications. In a few minutes the patient de¬ clared that he was much eafier and better—I repeated my me¬ dicines, &c. three or four times, and the third day, I think, from the time I firft vilited him, he went abroad about his • ufual bufinefs, perfectly cured. No. xxxvm. i « 4 gOON after the above, PETER ANDREWS, one of my own fervants, defired leave to go to the burial of a child, the fon of one of his particular acquaintance. I readily con- fented. Next day, Peter looked moft fhockingly, and com¬ plained of violent pain all over, and was fo very weak that he could fcarcely walk up or down flairs. Alternately he fhi- vered with icy cold, and burned with intenfe heat. He found his throat beginning to grow fore—in a few hours he could fcarce fwallow but with great pain and difficulty.—I enquired where he had been ; he told me only fo far as the churchyard in the coach with the corps of the child, who had died of a putrid fore throat—and that the mother was ill of the fame difeafe. No tune was to be loft; and I would have been very R ferry

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