A letter to Dr. Chambers ... on several important points relating to the nature and proper treatment of gout / by Sir Charles Scudamore.

Date:
1839
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Chambers ... on several important points relating to the nature and proper treatment of gout / by Sir Charles Scudamore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    or any of the secretions, the poison of the plague, small pox, measles, scarlatina, and so on ? But, for practical purposes, is it not suffi- cient that we make ourselves acquainted with the characters of a disease, all its symptoms, its va- rieties, its complications, and the modifications it receives from individual constitution, and from every kind of internal and external influence ? A careful investigation of every distinct case ; the knowledge of all the remedies which our art supplies; and of their various opera- tions on different constitutions; with strict attention to all the points of the particular case we are called upon to treat; will give us no mean qualification to succeed, when success can be obtained. I believe the gout to be a disease both of the solids and the fluids, and that there is a mutual reaction between them. Primarily, there is too much nutrition in the system for healthy uses ; and congestion, with wrong func- tion, is always more or less found in the he- patic system. In the progress of the disorder, the nervous system becomes much involved. It may, in the convenience of language, then
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