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BAUMÈS, Jean-Baptiste Timothée (1756-1828),
professor at the Royal Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. M.A.S. containing a memorandum on the treatment of hysteria with prescriptions to remedy it. Montpellier, 18 prairial year 12 [7 June 1804]. 5 pp. in-4. Minor scratches.
Long description of the treatment and the regime to be adopted to fight hysteria in women. "A lady, after having experienced hysteria attacks, gifted with an eminently sensitive nervous constitution, was affected by metrorrhagia or loss of blood; that the latter has somehow become habitual & that finally, a sensitive tumor has formed in the lateral parts of the hypogastrium, which one has every reason to believe has its seat in the one & other ovary [...]". Baumès develops at length the protocols to be carried out to diminish the humours and to fight the tumours, to which one must add a strict diet: "medicated broths, whey & plant juices; anti-hemorrhagic & altering teas & mixtures [...]. According to these general views, Madame should only feed on cooked vegetables that are not very well seasoned. They can be fatty or lean: oil, butter, milk. Fresh and cooked eggs in the shell, dairy products, not fresh cheese, frogs, raw oysters, floury foods such as rice, spelt [...]" are allowed. Baumès reviews the other foods, fruits, dried vegetables, meats, pastries, stews, wines, coffee and chocolate, and refers to his Treatise on pulmonary phthisis [Volume II, page 61]. It is necessary to exercise because inaction is harmful and to practice enemas. The doctor writes a long and very precise recipe of broth to be taken several times a day, with tortoise syrup.
A L.A.S. from Doctor Lafourier (?), to a colleague, is attached. Le Havre, May 23, 1868. 4 pp. in-8. About volumes of Ambroise Paré.
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