An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . A M E L Of COUNTRY JUST-ASSES, MARES, ALDERWOMEN, and WHIPPERS-IN ; By JAMES G R A HAM, MD. Prtfidcnt of the Council of Health !—Sole Proprietor, and principal Dirt-ctor of tbc Temple ofHealtu ! in P all-Mall, neat: tht Kim/i-Palace. ~ LONDON PRINTED, Ar J -vij t Temple of Hcjltli ; iriKc Pamphlet Slicp, und:r the TioM 1uzta of the Royal Exchange; and avMr,Rj«U& Pah. l luet-Shvi*. c^fi« AiiJetiObjCofTce-Hourc, No. 55, Fleet-Stito.—Price 7w« Sbitlingt and &x-Pm«* ? Title-page of Grahams Lecture. (Reduced—the original is 4to.) 46 AN
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . A M E L Of COUNTRY JUST-ASSES, MARES, ALDERWOMEN, and WHIPPERS-IN ; By JAMES G R A HAM, MD. Prtfidcnt of the Council of Health !—Sole Proprietor, and principal Dirt-ctor of tbc Temple ofHealtu ! in P all-Mall, neat: tht Kim/i-Palace. ~ LONDON PRINTED, Ar J -vij t Temple of Hcjltli ; iriKc Pamphlet Slicp, und:r the TioM 1uzta of the Royal Exchange; and avMr,Rj«U& Pah. l luet-Shvi*. c^fi« AiiJetiObjCofTce-Hourc, No. 55, Fleet-Stito.—Price 7w« Sbitlingt and &x-Pm«* ? Title-page of Grahams Lecture. (Reduced—the original is 4to.) 46 AN ESSAY ON THE a line in a minute ! and read the whole lecture over once everymonth so long as you live. What the spoken discourse waslike I have not been able to ascertain, but the written one isabout as nauseous a collection of obscenity and cant as couldwell be devised. As regards the latter characteristic, Grahamhad great ideas of his powers as a preacher, and several of hissermons are printed. On one occasion, when his activities. Graham Lecturing.(Kays Edinburgh Poi traits.) had secured him a temporary residence in the Tolbooth ofEdinburgh, he treated his fellow prisoners to a specimen ofthis style of oratory. To crown all, the (printed) lecturecontains an advertisement of his anti-venereal essence, Imperial pills, and other similar nostrums, all obtainable atthe Temple of Health, at prices varying from half-a-crown toa guinea. The Celestial Bed was a gorgeous structure,supported on forty pillars of brilliant glass, fitted with magnetsand various electrical devices, and also termed by its HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 47 proprietor the medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed. To-wards the end of his days he fell upon evil times and wasconstrained to advocate earth or mud-baths. Beer, tobacco,and woollen clothes all come in for his adverse criticism,expressed with the same moderation as his views on mostpeople and things with which he did not agree (the people,by the wa
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