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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[ 5° ] as well known before, as the virtues and application of ./Ether, fixed Air, Magnetifm, and Electricity, are now known to the faculty in general. It is true, indeed, that aether, eledtricity, fixed air, and'fe- veral other means I make ufe of in the cure of difeafes, have been for a conliderable time known in medicine. But how, I repeat,—have they been known ? what important purpofes have been anfwered by them ? Some few inftances of their efficacy are upon record ;-they ferve to enlarge the lift of the articles of the Materia Medica;-and to fvvell the os¬ tentatious train of imaginary medical refources, which are in reality of very Small and precarious ufe, in aCtual practice; becaufe they are rather fuppofed to poffefs great virtues, than known to be endowed with any ufeful virtue at all.--But as truly valuable and efficacious remedies, applicable to a great variety of diforders, and capable of affording certain relief in a vafi: number of deplorable and hitherto incurable cafes, they have been in a great meafure unknown and unregarded, except by myfelf alone. And in this refpeCt, as well as in my various and curious combinations and applications of them, of / • /

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