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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    and made useless hj it, that I feel bound to hold out a warning against the drug in the strongest and most serious language I can adopt. One exam]3le amongst many will serve as an illustration of the dire effects of Colchicum— better than the most earnest words of wamins', and for this piu’pose I append the following :— Some time since I had under my care a gentleman whose case had been considered hope- less, and whose complicated diseases, originating in Kheumatic Gfout, were daily wearing away his life, to the profound grief and distress of those who witnessed his sufferings. There seemed to be no hope for him. He had been treated for Jaundice, for Disease of the Kidneys, for Inflam- mation of the Bladder, and at one time—some months before consulting me—for Aneurism of the Heart. He was a sorrowful creature to look upon. From contraction and swelling of the joints, together with extreme debility, he was obliged to be wheeled in liis chair from the bed- side to his place by the fire, and so back again— the only^^change he had. His eyesight was very dim,^ and his hearing greatly impaired. Daily vomiting after any solid food made the veiy sight of nourishment so obnoxious to him