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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    that it was difficult to persuade him to take any- thing. A continuous thirst, which nothing could alleviate, was one of the many slighter evils he had suffered for seven weeks before I saw him. His bowels were either constipated, or, for three or four days together, in a state of un- interrupted diarrhoea, so foetid that it was necessary to constantly use chloride of Inne or other disinfectant in his room. His diseases at length becoming so complicated, and there appearing daily new difficulties to contend with, his friends were hopeless that a cm’e could be effected. In such a state I was asked to see him and to give my opinion. I did so, and my opinion could have been very easily given in the one word—ColcMcum! I knew the wretched enemy of old, and saw at once, in every suffering and misery of the jiatient, the diseases its use had caused. The only questions for solution were: Had this drug too sm'ely done its work ? Was this man, not then forty years of age, to be hewn down in the ]3rime of life through this fatal mischief? Or was it possible that by my treatment I could cm'e his disease and restore him to health ? I felt so secure in my experience that I had