Cases in the acute rheumatism and the gout; with cursory remarks and the method of treatment / [Thomas Dawson].
- Thomas Dawson
- Date:
- 1776
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Cases in the acute rheumatism and the gout; with cursory remarks and the method of treatment / [Thomas Dawson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![himfelf to his horfe and the Cold-bath, as advifed; hath had an interval of two years; and, if he perfift in the ufe of them, will, in all probability, prevent much future mifery. CASE V. PETER STRINGER, of Hackney, a gardener, fifty-eight years of age, of a ftrong make and fanguineous habit, had often, of late years, been troubled with Rheumatic complaintsh, affeffing chiefly his loins and hips, which he ge¬ nerally removed by the ufe of Gum Jt h The following are Dr. Quincy’s words — “ Why “ Rheumatifms likewife, and hyfterical affe&ions, are “ frequently fore-runners of the Gout in the female fex “ [and hypocondriacal affe&ions in men] is, becaufe thofe diforders are from the fame peccant matter as theGout; “ which is farther confirmed by their intire removal af- (t ter a fit of the Gout, in manner as moft other nervous (( diftempers are.” M 3 Guaiacum,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31873704_0169.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
