Remarkable cures, of gouty, bilious, and nervous cases / related by the patients themselves, and published at their desire, in sundry letters to John Scot, M.D. ...
- Scot, John
- Date:
- 1783
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarkable cures, of gouty, bilious, and nervous cases / related by the patients themselves, and published at their desire, in sundry letters to John Scot, M.D. ... Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![thfc pulfc foiTftitiirtes flower than natural, yet in the night,* efpecially in the time of fleep, hot flufhings often fpread over the whole body 3 the pulfe becomes quicker and ftronger, and a faintnefs or Tome degree of ficknefs at the ftomach is felt. A giddinefs, efpecially after rifing up hazily; pains in the head fometimes returning periodically; a violent pain in a final] part of the head, not larger than a fhilling, as if a nail was driven into it; Tinging in the ears; a dimnefs of fight and appearance of a thick mift, without any vifible fault of the eyes. Objedts are fometimes feen double, and unufual fmells are perceived ; obftinate watchings,-attend- ed fometimes with uneaiinefs which is not to be deferibed, but which isleffened by getting out of bed; difturbed fleep; fiightful dreams; the night-mare; fometimes drew- finefs and too great inclination to fleep, fear, peevifhnefs, fadnels, defpair; at other times high fpirits; wandering thoughts, impaired memory, ridiculous fancies; Arrange perfuafions of their labouring under difeafes of which they are quite free,and imagining their complaints to be as dange- rous as they find them tronblefome; they are often angry with thofe who would convince them of their miftake. Patients, after having been long afflidied with many of thefe fymptems (for all of them never happened to any one perfon) fometimes fall into melancholly, madnefs, the black jaundice, a dropfy, tympany, confumption, pal- fy, apoplexy, or fome other fatal diftemper. Symptoms imputed to irregular and wandering Gout* Flying pains, fpafmodic contraction, and fudden fen^ fations of heat and cold, in the mu Teles and exteriour parts of the body. A want of appetite and two great cra^ vingr j](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28148654_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
