A short account of the salutary effect of Doctor Launey's medico condensed air : describing a few only of the disorders which have been cured thereby : together with a description of the beginning, the process and actual state of the complaints of the respective patients when they applied to the medical apparatus for relief.

  • Launy, David Frederick.
Date:
May 30, 1805
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Credit: A short account of the salutary effect of Doctor Launey's medico condensed air : describing a few only of the disorders which have been cured thereby : together with a description of the beginning, the process and actual state of the complaints of the respective patients when they applied to the medical apparatus for relief. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When by different corruptions it happens, in short, that crea- tures suffer, air comes to tneir assistance ar.d cures them, let them be imperfect or languish. Earth, trees and grass are in a lan- guishing state, by a burning dryness—but by the dew oi the air, ali things revive. Nevertheless, no creature can be repaired and established, but by its proper nature. Air L eing the fountain and the original source of all things, it is also its universal principle. Man sees, undoubtedly, that seed, death, sickness, and tfie reme- dy or cure of every thing is in the air. Nature has put in it all the treasures* in giving to it the principles of generation and cor- ruption of ail things, and keeps them shut under particular secret doors I But it is truly possessing the golden keys of these doors, to know how to open them happily, to take that air, or principle of air itself; because, when man don't know how to collect that air, t is ; .possible to acquire the thing which generally cures all distempers, and which regulates and preserves life to man. If you wish, then, Oh i my son, to drive out all the infirmi- ties, you must find out the means in the primitive and universal source—nature produces nothing, but by things alike, or some- thing conformable to its nature. Learn, then, my son, to take that air.—learn to preserve the key of nature. It is, I acknow- ledge, a secret beyond the power of the vulgar, but not of the W :. To know how to draw air from the air, is a celestial wis- dc .:—^ea$ires may well know the air, tfut that air cannot be found without the key of nature. , It is a great secret to. know how to comprehend the virtue which nature has given to things. Nature is taken by nature alike ; a fish is taken with a fish; a bird with a bird ; and air is taken with another air, as with a sweet bait. Snow and ice, are air con- gealed by cold. Nature has given to them the preparations re- quired to take in that benevolent air. Here he stops. Undoubtedly he told verbally,to his son, the process of collecting his condensed air. The son kept religiously t:-.e promise given to his father. After many years practice, with jreat success, according to history, the son died with the secret. Thus, a discovery of the utmost benefit to the human species, was lost. But it is to be hoped, and I have very little doubt, having been eye-witness of many miraculous curt3 which Mr. Luuney has performed, with what he caiis his medical apparatus, and hav- ing felt powerfully the cold air escaping out of his reservoirs,that the curing air, to which he cannot give a name, is the very con- densed air of Aristea revived. ALLIOT, m. d. A pamphlet will be published in a few months, illustrated with hundreds of certificates and affidavits cf eminent cures., peri formed on every rank of people, by the effect of the Medico Con* densed Air, under the care oi the subscribe-, and that of his agents