On rheumatism, rheumatic gout, and sciatica : their pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Henry William Fuller.

  • Henry William Fuller
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1856
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Credit: On rheumatism, rheumatic gout, and sciatica : their pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Henry William Fuller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RHEUMATISM, RHEUMATIC GOUT, AND SCIATICA. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. Few diseases are more deserving of attention than that common, painful, and obstinate malady which has been recognised mider the title of Rheumatism. Whether viewed in relation to the number of its victims, the amount of present suffering it inflicts, or the terrible disease of the Heart which it entails, it ranks among the most formidable of human ailments. Its importance, however, in the estimation of the physiologist is derived not only from its prevalence and severity, but from the mystery in which it has ever been involved. Obscure in its origin, and in its subsequent course uncertain and variable, its source has hitherto remained undiscovered, its phenomena unexplained, its treatment unsatisfactory; and, by common consent, it is ascribed to a cause which affords not the slightest clue to its nature, nor the least explanation of its varied pheno- mena. Many persons consider exposure to cold sufficient to induce an immediate attack, and though rheumatism not