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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    the ankles so swollen and stiffened, that he has beet many years lame, and can seldom walk any consider- able distance without pain. The wrists are equally affected, and above half the joints of the fingers are become distorted and rigid with gouty concretions. He has tried very many prescriptions of the faculty, and once, for the space of a year, total abstinence from animal food and all fermented liquors, to no pur- pose ; and as many advertised medicines with as little success. Having heard a medicine discovered by Mr. Welles highly spoken of, about the 19th of March, 1804, being lately recovered from a slight fit of ten days, he began making tria] of it, at the rate of three ounces per day ; with the intention ‘of con- tinuing the use of it for some time as a preventive. For about seven days, during which the weather was remarkably fine, he continued perfectly well. On the evening of Monday the 26th, after riding about three miles on horseback, (the weather, being suddenly changed to severe cold) he felt a pain in his left shoulder. He took, at going to bed, three ounces of the medicine. In the morning of the 27th, the pain | still continued; but as is too frequently his custom, he confesses he imprudently went out, though the wea- ther was unfavourable, taking, however, three ounces of the medicine by way of fortifying himself against — it; none’ at night, being from home.—28th, pain much increased, and slight appearance of gout in the left hand, called, in his way home, on Mr. Luscombe, took, by his advise, two large glasses of the medi- cine. In the evening took four ounces and half of the medicine.—-29th, continued at home unwell, but not
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