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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[ *3* ] perfedt healthinefs in every refpedt: Nor have I fince heard, that Mr. Peter has coached it with fuch dangerous company.: THE months of July, Auguft, and September laft, were *' ■- ' ' - v • i '1 employed at Edinburgh, my native city. The fifteen fuc- ceeding cafes are molt refpedtfully felecled from a much greater number of cures performed in that city, in order to convince the world, beyond a pofirbility of difpute, of the univerfality as well as infinite fuperiority of my peculiar me¬ thods of treating difeafes, over that trifling, abfurd, and ridi¬ culous pradtice, to diftinguhh which, the terms regular, ejia- blijhedy and fcientific, have been proftituted. Abundantly fen- fible, how dangerous it would have been to pra&ife in a city where there are fo great a number of celebrated Phyficians and public Teachers of the Healing Art; and in the feat of fo fa¬ mous an Univerfity of Literature and Science ; I would not have ventured to pradtife, had I not had the moft flattering hope,—nay, the fullejl ajfurance, that my difcoveries and im¬ provements in the art of curing difeafes would be their own advocates:; moft powerfully pleading their own caufe, and r R 2 moft

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