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.

  • Graham, James, 1745-1794.
Date:
1778
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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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    To Mrs. Catharine MACAULAY! Madam! ¥ M PRESSED with fentiments of the deepeft and warmeft gratitude, I have the honour of infcribing to you the fourth Edition of a Book, which has acquired importance from the re- * nowned name of Macaulay! When I firfl: publifhed the valuable difcoveries and improvements which I have made in the cure of difeafes, the world fmiled at me as a vifionary projector, or contemned me as a boafting empiric. But happily for me, and thrice happy for the world, that the Pamphlet in which they were a firft