Observations on the gout, and acute rheumatism : containing an account of a safe, speedy, and effectual remedy for those diseases : addressed to arthritic and rheumatic invalids / by C. Wilson, M.D.

  • Charles Wilson
Date:
1817
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Credit: Observations on the gout, and acute rheumatism : containing an account of a safe, speedy, and effectual remedy for those diseases : addressed to arthritic and rheumatic invalids / by C. Wilson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    hermodactyl was well known to the ancients, who investigated its medicinal properties with the closest attention. It has, at differ- ent times, for many centuries, been employ* ed as a remedy for gout, but after a full trial has always been rejected; probably on account of its inefficacy, and of its deleteri- ous properties. Alexander of Tralles, a Oreek physician, of the]sixth century, (from whom Mr. Want professes to have obtained the first hint on this subject,) in his chapter on anodynes, remarks, u that some persons take a medicine called dia hennodactj/Iwn, which produces an evacuation of watery be made by infusing, for two or three days, a quantity of the fresh-sliced root of colchicum autumnale in proof spirits of wine, in the proportion of four ounces of the former to eight of the latter. The dose should vary ac- cording to the constitution of the patient: upon an average, two drams, or two ordinary tea spoonfuls, is the proper quantity for an adult. To prepare a medi- cine irore particularly resembling theeau medicinale in external circumstances, it is merely necessary to use good Sherry or Lisbon, instead of proof spirit.
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