A treatise on the nature and cure of gout and rheumatism : including general considerations on morbid states of the digestive organs some remarks on regimen, and practical observations on gravel / by Charles Scudamore.

  • Charles Scudamore
Date:
1819
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of gout and rheumatism : including general considerations on morbid states of the digestive organs some remarks on regimen, and practical observations on gravel / by Charles Scudamore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dark-coloured animal matter, which is either greenish or blackish, in addition to the mucus, which in this case is very abundant. In short, so far as my experience has gone, the sediments in question present as much diver- sity, as the formed calculi of the bladder, and require the same pathological reasoning, and medical treatment. These points, together with some discussion of the che- mical composition of the respective deposits, are to be considered in a subsequent division of the subject. I return now from this long digression, and resume my more immediate treatise. OF THE EXCITING CAUSES. Excessive Intemperance.—sudden repletion, and inflammatory action of the general circulation, which follow extreme indulgence at the table, sometimes intro- duce a fit, in the course of a few hours, where the pre- disposition strongly exists. It rarely fails to occur, if the excess be much repeated ; and now and then, a de- ])auch of the stomach appears to be the sole occasion of introducing the first fit. One patient, neither descended from gouty parents, nor having reason to expect such a disease, after three or four days of successive conviviality, in which he drank champaiffn very freely, was seized severely with the gout. In another instance also of acquired gout, the patient, by his external characters, not appearing predisposed to the disease, suftered a first 'attack, which had a very