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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    mercurial ]ooisoning, tliat would, had I continued the dose some few days longer—if it had not produced salivation—have ended in either Jaundice, or Gastric or Rlieumatic Fever. I then discontinued the blue pillj and altered the treatment with the obj ect of freeing my system from its effects. As the remedies began to act upon me the symptoms I have described gradually subsided, and at the end of three months I was again in a healthy state, with a clean tongue, sound appetite, no flatulence or indigestion, and no rheumatic or neuralgic pains in my limbs. Tliis experiment I made- at a time when I was living a very sedentary life. I afterwards repeated it when I was out every day in the fresh air, taking strong walking exercise, and the result of the second trial confirmed my former experience. The same train of symptoms showed themselves, but in some respects in a less severe form, except that getting wet always produced rheumatic pains, accompanied by more or less fever. Still, they were perfectly recognisable as the effects of the Mercury, and with its discon- tinuance and alterative treatment they subsided as before. In both these experiments I was