Volume 1

A practical essay on the use and abuse of warm bathing in gouty cases / By William Oliver, M.D. of Bath.

  • William Oliver
Date:
M.DCC.LI. [1751]
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Credit: A practical essay on the use and abuse of warm bathing in gouty cases / By William Oliver, M.D. of Bath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | [ 45] to him the danger of fuch condué, ought to leave him to that management, for which he cannot be anfwerable. From what has been faid, I think it plain that rubbing, and pumping the parts affected, ought not to be rafhly attempted in this kind of gout, for by thefe powerful diffolvers, and diflodgers of gouty matter, a greater quan- tity of it may at once be thrown into the blood than would have been by feveral bath- ings. ‘Fhe propriety, and fafety of thefe operations muft be judged of by the nature and obftinacy of the obftruding matter. | Whatever can be removed by bathing only, cannot want thefe more powerful applications. But where the obftructing matter. is of a fix’d kind, and the part affected cold, as in tendi-~ nous.contractions, then they are by all means. to be called in to our affiftance, and they of- ten do great fervice where milder means fail. They are both to be ufed with great caution,, . rubbing,
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