Lecture on the progress and success of the Droitwich brine baths : with a short history of cases and their treatment / by Mr. Bainbrigge.

  • Bainbrigge, William Henry, 1806-1884.
Date:
[1877]
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Credit: Lecture on the progress and success of the Droitwich brine baths : with a short history of cases and their treatment / by Mr. Bainbrigge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c These cases for the half-year number one hundred and fifty-one, which I shall divide into classes as follows :— General Rheumatic cases 42 Gout, pure and simple 22 Gout and Rheumatism 20 Neuralgia ••• ... 8 RaialysTS ■■■ ... ... ... ... ... ... q •Supposed Consumption, with extreme debility 1 .. and other attendant symptoms J ^ Diabetes 3 Diseasee arising from general derangement from \ arious causes general derangement from 41 Specific affections, arising from causes uiicou-) .. ••• . f nected with general health ... Total 151 Cases. Rheumatism in all its multitudinous and various forms, is one of the most common, most painful, and severe complaints of our country. It arises fi’om an ill-condition or morbid state of the blood. The ])oison is not confined to any particular tissue or organ, though it most particularly affects the joints, their sheaths and coverings, ligaments, tendons, as well as all the fibro-serous membranes of the body. A remarkable feature in this disease is its ever changing character and locality. Thus the inflamation may suddenly leave one joint and fly to another. Rheumatism is also frequently complicated with other diseases, such as Bronchitis, Pleurisy, and othei’s. What we have now, however, most particularly to do with is the treatment. We find Bleeding, Blisters, Purgatives, Opiates, Quinine, American Hellebore, Nitrate of Potash, Iodide of Pot- assium, Bark, Amimmia, and a host of other drugs have been given, with what success may in some degree be gathered, when we see the still numerous sufferers that flock to the Droitwich Baths. To eliminate the poison from the system, powerful pur- gatives have been resorted to, the mischievous effects of which I believe are second only to those produced by bleeding. It