On the Portable Sudatory, or hot-air-bath; with cases illustrative of its medical powers in various disorders, and its great utility in cholera morbus, with directions for its administration; together with remarks on the applicability of galvanism in the first stage of that disease / By M. La Beaume, medical-galvanist and electrician in ordinary to the King.

  • La Beaume, Michael.
Date:
1832
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Credit: On the Portable Sudatory, or hot-air-bath; with cases illustrative of its medical powers in various disorders, and its great utility in cholera morbus, with directions for its administration; together with remarks on the applicability of galvanism in the first stage of that disease / By M. La Beaume, medical-galvanist and electrician in ordinary to the King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE I. In the spring* of 1820,1 was sent for in g*reat haste, by the late Dr. Armstrong, to apply the Sudatory, in a very urgent and desperate case. When I arrived I found the patient, who was about thirty years of age, lying in a state of the greatest prostration. His countenance was extremely pale; he was unable to move his head, or open his eyes, without feeling a great degree of sickness and giddiness ; he could not speak, but in a whisper; he felt extremely cold, though under a profusion of blankets, with a bottle of hot water at his stomach, and a still larger one at his feet. Dr. A. observed, that this was a case of great danger; that the circulation had nearly ceased on the surface, and in the extremities; that the heart was gorged with blood; the pulse extremely fee¬ ble ; and the man rapidly sinking. I at once ordered the bottles to be taken away, and applied the Sudatory. In about five minutes, the patient observed that he felt a comfortable glow in the feet. In a quarter of an hour, he expressed himself in a louder tone of voice, as being sensible of a general warmth, with the head and chest greatly relieved. The physi- e 2