On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections, in connection with deragement of the assimilating functions / by Edward Rigby.

Date:
1844
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    tubes. The former disease yielded readily to treat- ment, but tbe latter proved extremely obstinate, and did not give way until gout made its appearance in tbe foot, when it quickly disappeared and the patient was discharged quite well*.” A similar condition of tbe throat and fauces, attended by a severe catarrhal attack, is also not unfrequently met with in gouty subjects. The same fact has been fully recognised by Dr. Graves in his admirable ‘ System of Clinical Medicine.’ He ap- pears to lay greater stress on the necessity of some pre- existing local injury or disease in order to determine the gouty affection to the part, than has been done in the preceding pages. There can be no doubt but that in many instances an exciting cause for localising the dia- thesis on any particular organ or structure is the ordi- nary manner in which these attacks of gouty affection have their origin; but in many other cases it is not so evident; and, as in the eruptive fevers, cholera, and certain forms of diarrhoea, the disease is determined to the skin and mucous membrane as an emunctory for discharging it from the system. “ Gout,” says Dr. Graves, “ may attack almost every tissue in the body; it may seize on the intestines, * Practical Remarks on Gout, Rheumatic Fever, and Chronic Rheumatism of the Joints, by R. B. Todd, M.D., F.R.S.
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