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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. i1.] SANGUINEOUS FUNCTION. [oRD..11. 677 been thrown off by the skin. I have seen, says Swediaur, gpy xq. an inveterate case, in which the patient, labouring under a i eos paroxysm of several months’ duration, had the entire sur- agralarvata. face of the body covered every morning with a white powder, as though he had been dusted with flour *. Thus far we have followed up the progress of a regular Found in attack of gout in a constitution otherwise healthy and (icatecon- vigorous. But the same diathesis exists in systems of and why. delicate and infirm health, and where there is a want of sufficient energy to work up a fit of inflammation, and throw it off at its appropriate outlets. And in such case, as soon as it becomes roused into action by any of the causes of excitement already enumerated, it constitutes Under va- the SECOND VARIETY, assumes the guise of various other vr Negi diseases, as dyspepsy, hysteria, hypochondrias, palpitations but chiefly of the heart, vertigo, hemicrania, with several modifications faces of palsy or apoplexy. The stomach and bowels, however, organs. form the chief seat of affection ; the appetite is fastidious or destroyed ; a spasmodic stricture or painful oppression Fugitive is felt in the epigastric region, or the stomach is distended P*°*™ almost to bursting with flatulence; nausea, eructations, vomiting, and all the symptoms of indigestion follow, and are alternated with severe colic or costiveness. In the meanwhile, the disease shows itself, at times, in one or more of the joints, in slight and fugitive pains, as though making an ineffectual effort to kindle up a paroxysm of proper inflammation, but which there is not energy enough in the system to accomplish; whence the articular pains cease almost as soon as they appear, and the visceral de- rangement is renewed; sometimes slowly subsiding after a continuance of several weeks, and sometimes wearing out the entire frame, and terminating in abdominal or cellular dropsy. It sometimes happens, however, that while the general A. Pod- constitution of a podagric patient is tolerably sound, one pions or more of the internal organs form an exception to the general rule, and are less healthy than the rest. And as How pro- upon an excitement of gouty inflammation in a gouty “cet habit, the inflammation seizes ordinarily upon the weakest part of the body, it makes its assault?upon such organ