author
George M. Schweig
1842–1905
A New York physician who wrote at the edge of nineteenth-century medical innovation, exploring how electricity might be used in treatment. His surviving work offers a vivid glimpse of an era fascinated by electrotherapy and new clinical technology.
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The electric bath
by George M. Schweig
About the author
George M. Schweig was a nineteenth-century American physician best known for The Electric Bath (1877), a medical treatise on the uses and equipment of electrically assisted baths. Contemporary editions identify him as an M.D. in New York, a member of the New York County Medical Society and of the Medical Journal Association of the City of New York, and as one of the physicians to the New York Lying-In Asylum.
His book reflects a period when doctors were actively testing electricity as a therapeutic tool. In it, he explains the apparatus needed for galvanic and faradic baths and discusses their possible medical effects, showing both practical interest and confidence in emerging electrotherapeutic methods.
Little biographical information about his life seems to be readily confirmed from major open sources beyond his professional credentials and publications. Even so, his work remains useful as a historical record of late nineteenth-century medicine, when experimentation, optimism, and technical invention often met at the bedside.