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
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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.

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    ['19] tepeWihg itfrom'the extremities, is attended with dangerous fymptoms, by overwhelm- ing nature (already opprefied) with this additional'quantity of crude matter. 'fn my opinion,' the 'matter depofited on ' the joints, in the beginning of the fever, is intended to beleft tliefe, and put, as it 'were, to 6he fide, out of the common courfe of circulation ; 'and there it ought to remain till,' I ft, the reniaining matter is concotted and expelled; sdly, the more volatile,aCi*id, and fublile part has'foun^ its way through the' fkin; and, s'dly, the' grolTer' part has imdergone a certain degree of digeftibn, been gradually attenuated, and diluted by the mixture with other founder juices; and thifs^prepared for reabforption by' little arid ' Vittte at. each time, {feprifej and in That quantity only which' the digeftive powers of the organs are'well' able to'conco£l. and 'dlfpofe of, without much flfuggle; arid I am the more confirrried in this ideaby an obfervation which 1- have lately made in ' feyeral cafes : 'ulz. In ■ the beginning of the fit, when the fever run very high during the liight, I found'the affeded joints fwelled in propor- tion on the following morriing ; a d'emon- ftrafidn 'that the night fever had thrown a quantify of morbid matter out of the ge- ' neral mafs of humours, Dn thefe joints; and