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The study of medicine. Containing all the author's ... improvements / [John Mason Good].

  • John Mason Good
Date:
1829
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    ( CL. 111.] SANGUINEOUS FUNCTION. [ORD. Il. 661 so decisively of its benefit in these complaints as in cuta- Gen. XII. neous eruptions*. He seyret [There is some difficulty in judging of the real efficacy acuta. of the various plans of treating rheumatism; for, as Dr. Clutterbuck has truly observed, though ligamentous in- flammation does not yield so readily as some other in- flammations, it bears almost all kinds of treatment with impunity, and at last often subsides spontaneously, the disease seeming to wear itself out.] SPECIES Il. ARTHROSIA CHRONICA. CHRONIC RHEUMATIS M. PAIN, WEAKNESS, AND RIGIDITY OF THE LARGER JOINTS AND SURROUNDING MUSCLES; INCREASED BY MOTION; RELIEVED BY WARMTH; LIMBS SPON- TANEOUSLY, OR EASILY GROWING COLD, FEVER AND SWELLING SLIGHT, OFTEN IMPERCEPTIBLE. CoNCERNING the proper position, and, in some sort, Grn. XII. the nature of this disease, Dr. Cullen confesses him- Shee self at a great loss. In his Synopsis, he arranges it as ofarranging a sequel of acute rheumatism, and so explains it in his ea definition: yet he gives it a distinct name, that of Arthro- Cullen. dynia, for the express purpose, as he tells us, of having a distinct name at hand for any one who may choose to re- gard it as a separate genus; and whoever is so disposed is at full liberty, he adds, as to any objection of his own. Yet, in his First Lines, he takes a different view; and per- haps a more correct one'than either of the above. Chronic Sometimes rheumatism, instead of being a mere sequel of acute rheu- abil en matism, or a distinct genus, is here made a separate species matism. of acommon genus. “ Of this disease,” says Dr. Cullen, * Observations on Sulphureous Fumigation, as a Remedy in Rheumatism and Diseases of the Skin. Dublin, 1820.