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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    affects the system, and from the injudicious use of ]30werful drugs, entailing additional and unceasing suffering, he became the wretched object I was called in to see. I began by first attacking the seat of most of his present miseries—the stomach. This I did with the medicines I principally use in the cure of Gout,* and then I attacked the inward fever by other remedies.f The kidneys and bladder under this treatment became more healthy in their action, and at the end of sixteen days I had so far conquered the internal wrong that the bowels acted naturally, the skin towards night had often a slight moistiu’e, and the thirst was greatly abated. From that time my patient’s amendment became gradually more and more evident, and in three weeks I had him downstairs. Five days afterwards I got him out for an hour’s drive, and within a month of first seeing him he was able to transact con- siderable business (which for twelve months previously he could not do), and to take cairiage exercise every day. His joints were still stiff and slightly contracted, particularly the left • See page 41. t See page 58