A Treatise on Febrile Diseases (Volume 4); Including Intermitting, Remitting, and Continued Fevers Eruptive Fevers Inflammations Hemorrhagies and the ... Is Requisite for the Physician to Know, Resp

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804. Excerpt: ... any tendency that may appear to bemorrhagy. If an eruption brings considerable relief, we may for a day or two discontinue the evacuating plan; but if the eruption appears without bringing relief, it should occasion no change in the mode of treatment. It is observed above, that the drying up of ulcers has sometimes occasioned rheumatism as well as the other phlegmasiae; when, therefore, this complaint terminates in any kind of ulceration, we must not attempt to heal it too suddenly. CHAP. XIX. Of the Gout. _L HERE are few complaints of more importance, or on which more has been written, than the gout; and there is none, perhaps, on which so much has been said to so little purpose. A thousand treatises have promised certain means of removing it, and an unanswerable explanation of its phenomena; but on examination it has constantly been found, that the former were fallacious, and and the latter merely hypothetical. It is true indeed, that although we can very rarely attempt the cure of the gout, experience has greatly improved the mode df treatment in it, by pointing out how far and by what means relief may be obtained Without endangering life. But to those who know how great a number of works has appeared, particularly in late times, with the express view of unfolding its nature, it will appear a strange assertion, yet it is a just one, that however much the history of this disease may be improved since the revival of literature, all our reasonings respecting its nature, all our theories concerning its proximate cause, are as unsatisfactory as the neglected hypotheses of the ancients. The treatment improved rapidly as soon as physicians began minutely to attend to the progress of the disease; and the account which Sydenham has given of its symptoms has bee...