Some observations on the origin and progress of the atrabilious temperament and gout. Chap. IV. containing the regular, cardinal fit / by William Grant.
- William Grant
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations on the origin and progress of the atrabilious temperament and gout. Chap. IV. containing the regular, cardinal fit / by William Grant. 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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![' [ -5? ] ** bad fymptoms; and be contented only ** with water-gruel, fmail beer, and the like. For a perfon who has fufficient, *' and unbearable pain in his limbs, may keep his bed, his life being fecured by the violence of the pain, which is the moft effectual, though lharpeft remedy *' in nature. But if inftead of pains in the limbs *' an inveterate gout difpofes the patient to faintings, gripings, a loofenefs, and the *' like fymptoms, he is in great danger of *' being deftroyed by one of thefe fits, un- *' lefs he ufes exercife in the open air, for the moft part of every day, during the fits; without which no cordial or drug can fecure him from danger; not even *' Canary wine, which is the beft of all cordials in this cafe. Here, then, is the general rule, accord- . ing to the experience of Sydenham, which, in our more modern, medical language, would run thus: If you have much pain in the extremities, and other fymptoms of inflammation, in the beginning of the car- dinal fit, and during the days of crudity, then keep your bed, and obferve an anti- phlogiftic regimen for fome days, which will greatly moderate your pain, and pro- mote codion. F 3 But](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22304903_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
