A familiar treatise on rheumatism, and rheumatic affections : in which a popular view of these distressing maladies, their causes, symptoms, and methods of cure are so clearly arranged, that any person of common understanding may safely prescribe therefrom, principally by the use of domestic means.

  • Hickman, William, of Henley-on-Thames
Date:
[1815?]
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Credit: A familiar treatise on rheumatism, and rheumatic affections : in which a popular view of these distressing maladies, their causes, symptoms, and methods of cure are so clearly arranged, that any person of common understanding may safely prescribe therefrom, principally by the use of domestic means. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    raatism. The common Rheumatism is called the Chronic, and is not attended with fever, or heat, or dryness of the skin. The symp- toms are wandering pains, or a fixed pain either about the shoulders, hips, loins, arms, legs, knees, or any bony or sinewy parts of the body, felt most when in action, or when lying warm in bed ; persons in years feel it mostly about the head and sides : it usually yields to a little care and attention, if not suffered to be too long without it. The Acute Rheumatism is attended with fever and thirst, great restlessness, swellings of the joints, knees, wrists and shoulders, and an unusual redness appears on the surface of the skin. If this fixes long about the nerves it becomes very difficult to cure, for the internal parts would be soon affected; if the brain be attacked by it, a delirium ensues; if it falls upon the lungs, the patient is: in imminent danger of suffocation, the se- vere pain of this kind causes a general in-
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