Advice to gouty persons / by Richard Kentish.

  • Kentish, Richard, 1730-1792.
Date:
1791
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Credit: Advice to gouty persons / by Richard Kentish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    I >9 ] ' They are feldom frequent till after the age of hve-and-thirty. But I have feen leveral inflances of fevere paroxyfms in boys of ten^ or twelve years of age. A paroxyl'm or fit of the Gout, accord- ing to the common acceptation of the term, is an inflammatory afiedlion of fome of the joints, attended with other peculiar fymp- toms. This inflammation fometimes comes on fuddenly, without any warning j but it is more often preceded by feveral fymptoms. —An unufual coldnefs, numbnefs, or fenfe of weight in the limb, frequent cramps of the mufcles of the legs, an unufual tur- gefence of .the veins, and a fort of prick- ling pain flriking down the whole of the lower extremities, with the ceffation of the ordinary fweating of the feet, when they are affedled, take place. Previous to thefe fymptoms of the local- affedtion, the whole body is commonly af- fedted with fome degree of torpor and lan- gour j the patient complains of lafTitude,