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^ ] Gregory, for reducing the whole treatment of the Gout, and fome other difeafes, to the moil beautiful precifion and fimplicity.-Aflifted by the difcoveries, improvements, and hints of thefe great men, the methods I have had the happi- nefs to invent, improve, and extend, poffefs all the qualifica¬ tions of the moft perfect mode required byCELSUS, of curing “ Cito, tnto, etjucunde,” fpeedily, fafely, and agreeably. All this is done often with no internal medicines, and ge¬ nerally with very few, andthofeof the moft elegant and moft agreeable kind; confifting chiefly of diet, baths, and Ample medicines; or of certain pure, fubtil, chemical effences; aerial, aetherial, magnetic, and eleftric vapours, applications, and influences, varioufly modified, combined,and applied, fo as to be adapted to the great variety of conftitutions and cafes, which, in fome form or other, are capable of being either cured or relieved by them. For 1 pretend not to cure every Confump- tion, every Gout, every nervous, painful or dangerous difeafe which may occur ; but I dare venture to promife the cure of moft, and the relief of all whofe cafes I fhall undertake. For many cafes there are, with which I fhall have no concern — fome.

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