Volume 1

Practical remarks on gout, rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatism of the joints : being the substance of the Croonian lectures for the present year, delivered at the College of Physicians / by Robert Bentley Todd.

  • Robert Bentley Todd
Date:
1843
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Credit: Practical remarks on gout, rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatism of the joints : being the substance of the Croonian lectures for the present year, delivered at the College of Physicians / by Robert Bentley Todd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION VIII. RESEMBLANCE OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE RHEUMATIC DIA- ‘THESIS AND FEVER TO THOSE OF BLOOD-DISEASES—COMPA- RISON OF THEM WITH THOSE OF PURULENT INFECTION AND GLANDERS—THEORY OF THE RHEUMATIC DIATHESIS AND PAROXYSM—THE CAPSULAR RHEUMATISM OF MACLEOD: IS GOUT — NATURE OF THE RHEUMATIC MATTER, In reviewing the leading phenomena of the rheumatic paroxysm, it is impossible not to perceive a resemblance of the most marked kind to some of those diseases which I de- scribed in my first Lecture, and which are confessedly due to the introduction of a morbid material into the blood. In the first place the fever partakes of the irritative nature, which is the leading character of that which precedes the cutaneous eruption in the exanthemata; nor, as in those diseases, is that fever relieved until] the morbid element which gives rise to it, has, as it were, spent its fury on the textures — to which it is attracted. Again, there are two diseases, to the earlier stages of which it presents a still more striking resemblance. These are infection of the blood by pus (from phlebitis or any other cause), and glanders. Those formidable cases of puru-