A treatise on the gout: containing the opinions of the most celebrated ancient and modern physicians on that diseases; and observations on the Eau médicinale [d'Husson] / [John Ring].

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821
Date:
1811
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Credit: A treatise on the gout: containing the opinions of the most celebrated ancient and modern physicians on that diseases; and observations on the Eau médicinale [d'Husson] / [John Ring]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    great inconvenience attending his confine- ment. I cannot help thinking, however, that in a person of a pallid diriptesintt and not corpulent, a little more caution ought to have been observed. | About five weeks ago, being seized with the complaint in both feet, and one knee, he took half a bottle as usual; which produced no sensible operation; but about three o’clock on the following afternoon, he felt slight pains about the stomach and chest. Two hours after, he felt a violent pain over the left eye ; which extended across the forehead, over the right eye, and continued ver y. violent’ for seven hours; and then fixed between the eyes. During the greater part of this time he was delirious. The pain did not entirely cease, for fourteen or fifteen hours. ‘The me- icine’ not operating, he took some Confec-. tion of Senna, which has always had the de- sired effect. He afterwards took the Eau Medicinale as an alterative; and the Ego went off in six or seven days. Since February, he has been subject’ to sudden and severe pains in the head, con= fined to a small space ; which, for a moment, almost render him msensible. ~ He was never