Gout and rheumatic gout : a new method of cure / by John W. Foakes.

  • Foakes, John Weston.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Gout and rheumatic gout : a new method of cure / by John W. Foakes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    used in the treatment of these diseases has been submitted to such tests as satisfied me that it was ]Dure and of the finest quality ; and all the medicines, too, which my patients have taken have been made up by myself, or under my pei*- sonal superintendence. These details I admit were at first very irksome, but the knowledge derived from this extra care was soon so appa- rent, in the certainty with which my remedies acted, that I have never ceased to feel gratified at having been successful in developing a system which has produced such satisfactory results. I am quite prepared for many objections to my method of cure, because I know it must be tried and proved by time, practice, and experi- ence, before my brother practitioners will be brought to acknowledge the great value of the remedies I have indicated, and the immense results to be obtained in the treatment of these diseases by their careful and judicious adminis- tration. Having given the results of my experience, tested by many years’ practice, I can afford to await their verdict, assured that in time, what I have now written must he accepted hj the Profession as a great truth, which will