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.

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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    tion, and my treatment was directed to free liis system from the excess of litliic acid. On the 5th of Jidy he was considerably better. On the 18th of July there was further improvement, the discomfort in breathing had considerably decreased, and a night or two previously he had had from foim to five hours’ quiet sleej7, for the first time for some weeks. The pressure in the vessels of the head was also considerably less, but he had severe nmnbness in both arms. I still continued my treatment for sujDpressed gout, a^Dplying stimulating embrocations to the S]Dine and arms. On the 2nd of August the action of the heart was much more healthy and free ; he had had no oppression in his breathing for one week, although he had been taking a considerable amount of exercise. All pressure in the head had ceased, and he was free from numbness in the arms. On the 21st of August his symptoms were those of continued imjDrovement, there was no discomfort in his heart, or oppression of breathing, he felt so well that he wished to go to the Highlands for some shooting, and I considered that he might now do so without danger. On his return from Scotland, on the
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