A Further Examination of the Principles of the Treatment of Gout; With Observations on the Use and Abuse of Colchicum. With Observations on the Use and Abuse of Colchicum - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1151341711 ISBN 13: 9781151341716

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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. 1833. Excerpt: ... conceive that we have quite sufficient guidance to the nature and treatment of the disease in its obvious characters. The inflammation of St. Anthony's fire is of a peculiar or specific kind; but we are not able to show that, during its existence, the blood possesses any essential chemical difference from that which belongs to it during gouty inflammation, or even common inflammation. Even in those humoral diseases in which the peculiar or specific fever of the system arises from the admixture of a virus with the blood, as, for example, the small pox and measles, we do not institute an examination into the chemical nature of the blood, nor attempt a chemical method of treatment. We may rest satisfied with the fact, that some individuals possess in their constitution an hereditary disposition to gout, which comes into action in proportion as it is called forth by the influence of the predisposing and the exciting causes; and, that other individuals acquire this disposition, wholly by means of improper habits of living acting upon that peculiarity of constitution, which involves the inscrutable question of proximate cause. We see every day some striking example of the absence of all appearance of disposition to gout, in persons who do not avoid the predisposing and exciting causes, but, on the contrary, commit every kind of irregularity and excess in their habits of living. Some evil consequences will of course ensue; but, in such particular instances, it would seem that the gout cannot be produced. Very frequently, however, the gout is wholly acquired, there being no trace of its existence in any preceding generation, by those persons who use animal food to excess, drink freely of wine, or indulge in the use of strong malt liquor together with spirits, and...

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• ISBN 10: 1151341711
• ISBN 13: 9781151341716
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
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