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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. 11t.] SANGUINEOUS FUNCTION. [ORD. 1. 693 what are called nervous complaints, with lowness of spirits. Gen. XII. In every one of them, before a year had passed, after finish- ia! eee A ing the course of the powders, some hydropic symptoms podagra. appeared, which, gradually increasing in the form of an Treatment ascites or hydrothorax, especially the latter joined with ee anasarca, in less than two or at most three years, proved gout. fatal *.” As Dr. Cullen gives us no account of any mischief that But such has followed the use of bitter tonics in constitutions instances marked by general debility and atonic gout, the evils he ea has described seem, on his own evidence, to be limited to when nicely those whom we have already cautioned against the em- in pies ployment of such a course. No proper classification or line of distinction seems to have been drawn or adhered to; which would probably have presented us with very different results if it had been; and have superseded the clashing and unsatisfactory explanation of atonic effects, uniformly produced by a continuance of tonic medicines. The subject, however, requires to be further examined The subject by a more accurate classification of gouty patients who lepine: may be put under the influence of medicines of this kind; mination. 4 and I throw out the hint for this purpose. Yet, that a That bitters persevering course in bitter tonics does not uniformly prove 2% net : aE RS TES i universally in any way injurious to those who engage in it, is I think jnjurious demonstrable from the daily use of table-beer in almost evidenced from the use every family throughout the country, and its appearing to of hop in be one of the wholesomest beverages we can adopt. Dr. table-beer. Darwin, indeed, ventures to ascribe part of the mischief produced by highly-spirited malt liquors to some noxious quality in the hops they contain; but the stronger and headier malt liquors are uniformly prepared with a much smaller proportion of hops than the weaker, and especially than those which go under the name of table-beer. For the only point aimed at by the employment of hops, is to prevent an acetous fermentation; which is effectually guarded against by the larger proportion of spirit. con- tained in ale and strong beer; but which every one knows would soon take place in table-beer if it were not power- fully impregnated with this grateful bitter. And hence