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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[ 53 ] cinqs.—-Let no such apply to me, or if they fhould ap¬ ply, take it amifs, that I recommend it to them to have re- courfe for relief to a common Apothecary, or to a family Phyficiam—To Patients of the latter fort, whofe cafes on ex- «ly animation I may find to b’eJj3£urable, I fhall recommend as fome, and indeed the only relief of their prefent fufferings, a patient endurance of their unhappy lot, and a religious refig- nation to the will of that Being who afflidteth us for our good, and often healeth unexpectedly by his almighty power. It may not be improper, in this place, to mention the dif- eafes in which I have found my medicines and applications moft ferviccable. And, firft, in Confumptions incipient, and even when the diforder is confiderably advanced, I feldom fail of curing. But where the lungs have been long and deeply ulcerated, and the Patient greatly reduced, I always decline doing any thing—for in thofe ftages of the difeafe a cure is, I believe, impofiible; in fuch deplorable cafes, however, I have fometimes been prevailed on to attempt giving relief, and I generally fucceed in alleviating the moft diftrefling and alarming

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