Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler.

  • Thomas Fowler
Date:
1795
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Credit: Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ zyi ] tion, that the chronic rheumatifm is much lefs under the influence of the general pro- <rrefs and viciffitudes of thefeafons than has hitherto been imagined. Cafes of Lumbago occurring in each Sex at the different Periods of Life. yezr 10 years 20 years 30 years 40 years 50 years 60 years total to to to to to to to 10 years 10 years 30 years 40 years 50 years 60 years 70 years num. snales o 1 6 6 11 3 3 3° fan. 0253 3 2 2 JJ o » 3 11 9 H 5 5 47 Of thefe forty-feven cafes of genuine lum- bago, thofe arifing from fprains*, bruiies9 &c. being rejected, it appears, that thirty-one occurred in males, and feventeen in. females 5 that of the thirty in males twenty-three oc- curred between the ages of twenty and fifty j and that of the feventeen in females five oc- curred between the ages of twenty and thirty. The few examples which occurred beyond the age of fifty were nearly equal between the fexes, and the examples under twenty we