Strictures on the gout: with practical advice to the gouty people of Great Britain / [Samuel Wood].

  • Wood, Samuel
Date:
1775
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Credit: Strictures on the gout: with practical advice to the gouty people of Great Britain / [Samuel Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in a wine-glafs of the ftrongeft double-diftilled Spirit of Pepper-mint are to be taken : this will frequently carry off the fit where the quantity of matter accumulated is fmall, and its caufe of adbion proceeds from fome fudden accident, as a cold, furpnze, a fall, &c. or if it fhould not be quite gone by the fecond night, but much abated, then take about two-thirds of the quan¬ tity of Balfam, or firft: dofe; but if the fit in- creafes, repeat the fame quantity advifed for the firft on the fecond night: and if the fever and feventy of the pain is fuch, that there is no ap¬ pearance of reft in two hours after, repeat it in the quantity of twenty drops, and continue to do lo every two hours till reft is obtained ; and which will be the cafe from the operation of the Balfam on the part affeded, undeniably from the frnell accompanying the perfpirable matter; for bcfides being attenuating, it pofTeffes a pro¬ perty of fheathing or blunting the afperities of thofe particles forwarding to digeftion ; and its fudorific quality enlarges and expands the cavi¬ ties of the cutaneous veffels for the more ready and eafy expulfion of the offending matter: by this means the irritation of the nervous fyftem is removed, and reft fucceeds •, as pain decreafes a genial compofure advances, and the patient finks into a comfortable and refrefhing f]eep, accompanied with a fine breathing fweat; in which ftate the digeftion and expulfion of the peccant matter will be very copious. If a vio¬ lent and profufe fweat fhould take place, fome of the bed-clothes muft be removed to reduce it to a gentle or breathing fweat. The Balfarq is to be repeated the next evening in like man¬ ner, and continued every night till the matter is io much expelled as to produce a very fenfible ’ diminution