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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.I11.] - SANGUINEOUS FUNCTION. [ORD. If. tive or other functions, with only slight or fugitive af- fection of the joints. y Complicata. The disease fixing on some Retrograde; recedent; internal organ instead of misplaced gout. on the joints; or suddenly transferred from the joints after having fixed there; producing in the internal organ affected, debility or inflammation according to the state of the constitution. The predisposing cause of a gouty diathesis, when it first forms itself in an individual, is plethora, or the state of the system produced by full living and indolence. An entonic state of the vessels, joined with plethora, may be set down as the predisposing cause to acquired gout; and this hypothesis seems consistent with the fact of the common occurrence of gout in strong robust in- dividuals. When it has been transmitted hereditarily it is more disposed to show itself in men of robust and large bodies, of large heads, of full and corpulent, and espe- cially gluttonous habits, or whose skin exhibits a coarser surface, in consequence of being covered with a thicker rete mucosum. [The middle and advanced periods of life are more dis- posed to gout, than the early periods. Thus, it does not commonly attack men until after the age of thirty-five, and generally not till a still later period. When the gout does appear in more early life, it seems to be in individuals in whom the hereditary disposition is very strong, and to whom the exciting causes have been strongly applied. Ac- cording to Hippocrates, eunuchs are not liable to gout, nor boys previously to venery ; but these opinions are pro- bably not very correct; since, with respect to the latter, the disease is well known to be almost peculiar to an ad- vanced period of life; and the eunuchs, who, in the time of Hippocrates, were chiefly Persian slaves, were in all likelihood confined to the strict discipline and the frugal and temperate lives enjoined to all, and therefore not ex- posed to the most active causes of gout. For Galen, in 669 Gen. XII. Spec. ITI. Arthrosia podagra. Predispos- ing causes of gout.