Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton.

  • Sutton, Thomas, 1767-1835.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ to be, that this disorder is slow to be excited into action. The causes tending to encourage the gout combine in effort, but are not all equally qualified to produce the disease. If, -therefo]*e, we could separate this sort of league, and, more especially, withdraw that which possesses the greatest power, we should, consequent!3% much weaken the confederacy. And, in addition to this measure, if those causes which were allowed still to remain, could be brought to act with great moderation, it is plain that the returns of gout might be expected to be less frequent, and a chance afforded of avoidino’ its ultimate and Q-reatest se- verity. Of these causes, the one that can be the most decidedly and entirely with- drawn from its co-operation to produce this disease, and which is the most ma- terial agent of all others in inducing it, is that of fermented liquors, which I should recommend to be entirely given