Illustrations of the power of compression & percussion, in the cure of rheumatism, gout, and debility of the extremities : and in promoting health and longevity / by William Balfour.
- Balfour, William, 1780-
- Date:
- 1819
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Illustrations of the power of compression & percussion, in the cure of rheumatism, gout, and debility of the extremities : and in promoting health and longevity / by William Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![six Yuars of age. And, some of her friends predicted, that should I succeed in relieving the affected joints, it would be at the expence ol’ driving the gout into her stomach, which would kill her at once. No attention, however, was paid to these representations. I pro- ceeded to examine the state of the ])arts of which she most complained. All her fingers were extremely weak, some of them swelled, others so ex- quisitely painful, that she could not suffer them to be touched. At my first visit I touched, by accident, the point of her right thumb, which almost occasioned fainting. She could not lift a wine glass with one hand, but she contrived to do it with both, by turn- ing their backs to >each other. Both wrist-joints were stiff and painful, but the left could not be moved without the greatest suffering. Both elbow- joints were greatly affected. The left](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28146591_0127.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
