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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    ^ome hope, and imparted it to those most anxious for his recovery. From that day—one in the first week of January, 1866—1 con- tinued my task. By means of close and strict inquiry and much cross-examination, I made the discovery I expected, viz., that the patient had for two years ]3revious to October, 1865, been treating himself for Rheumatic Grout. He had, lie said, at that time ignored all medical advice, finding that he derived no real benefit from it, and that his purse grew considerably lighter; so that from the j^erusal of some book he mentioned, he determined to “ cure himself.” This was the cm’e : Colchicum in small doses; Colchicum in larger doses; a few bottles of a French tincture; then back to Colchicum in larger quantities; a bottle or two of some patent specific highly recommended for the cure of Gout; back again to Colchicum in very large doses, with a meagre dietand cheap foreign wines, great enemies to English stomachs, and so on and on, backwards and forwards, till disarrangement of every description at last compelled him again to seek that professional advice he had so foolishly ignored. As I have already said, he had been treated for almost every internal disorder that