Therapeutics of the gouty diathesis : from a lecture delivered in the Polyclinic Evening Lecture Course, March 12, 1889 / by Solomon Solis-Cohen.

  • Solomon Solis-Cohen
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1889
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Credit: Therapeutics of the gouty diathesis : from a lecture delivered in the Polyclinic Evening Lecture Course, March 12, 1889 / by Solomon Solis-Cohen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [Reprinted from The MEDICAL News, May 18, 1889.] THERAPEUTICS OF THE GOUTY DIATHESIS. From a Lecture delivered in the Polyclinic Evening Lecture Course, March 12, 1889. BY SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN, A.M., M.D., PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL MEDICINE AND APPLIED THERAPEUTICS, PHILA- DELPHIA POLYCLINIC ; LECTURER ON SPECIAL THERAPEUTICS, S- . JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE, ETC. Recognizing from the facts we have thus far con- sidered, that it is not a disease—not a sudden or a gradual departure from the usually normal action of the organism —that we are dealing with; but that it is, if I may be permitted the expression, an abnormal normality; that is to say, an inherent departure of the individual organism from the typical action of like organisms; we see that our treatment is of necessity directed to permanent con- ditions, and must be of a permanent character. Our aim then, is not so much to alter the action of imperfectly functionating organs—though this must be, to a certain extent, part of our plan—but so to arrange the materials upon which that action is performed, and so to deal with the resultant products as to obviate the further disturb- ances of the economy arising from the presence in the circulating medium of irritant or toxic matters, or of matters not directly toxic, but still negatively harmful by their exclusion of others needed to promote proper func- tion, or of matters detrimental to general health, by throwing an added burden upon excretory organs to se- cure their removal.