George M. Schweig

George M. Schweig was a physician and medical writer best known for The Electric Bath, a work on the therapeutic use of electrically charged baths. The record for an earlier publication, On Some of the Uses of Galvanic and Faradic Baths from 1874, also identifies him as an author in this same area, showing a clear professional focus on electrotherapy.

Information attached to editions of The Electric Bath describes him as an M.D. in New York, a member of the New York County Medical Society and the Medical Journal Association of the City of New York, and one of the physicians to the New York Lying-In Asylum. Taken together, these details suggest a doctor involved both in professional medical circles and in sharing specialized treatment methods with a broader audience.

Very little widely available biographical information appears to survive beyond his medical publications and brief author notes. What remains is still interesting: his work captures a moment when electricity was being explored not just as a scientific curiosity, but as a serious medical tool.