An account of the discovery and operation of a new medicine for gout / [A. Welles].

  • Welles, A.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An account of the discovery and operation of a new medicine for gout / [A. Welles]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    my garden but on horseback these seven years. My hands and feet are now so weak that I cannot poise a walking-stick instead of a gun, and can hardly bear my ankles to hang upon my stirrups. To relieve these complaints, I have recourse to a bare warmth in flan- nel, sufficient to prevent cold, and to keep up a mode- rate perspiration upon the part affected, seldom take anodynes but at night, when the pain is acute; take forty or fifty drops of laudanum ; this lays me to rest, but not to sleep. This I repeat as long as: the pain is acute. But what is more hard than any thing, I never can recover the strength of my limbs, although I have no one defect, either as lump or chalkstone, on any part of my joints, that it is total debility, and a constant attendance of gouty affections upon the part ; that if Taccidentally hit a finger against the table, out - comes a large red spot, attended with gouty pain. Thus, dear Sir, am I tormented in my limbs, and pray for relief of lifé or cure. My age is fifty-five. — - : The medicine was furnished, and the first effects of it on this gentleman, will be found in the following extract from his letter, under date of December, 5, 1803. fy: Bis . , << J this day received asecond supply of the medi- cine, and shal] relate to you the effect it has had upon me. About three weeks since Iwas attacked, soon after dinner, with extreme cold in one foot and ankle, insomuch that it became quite uncomfortable. I had it rubbed well before the fire, which brought “out some gouty pain over the whole foot; the natural warmth returned, but the pain: increased so rapidly,
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