Rheumatism: its nature, causes, and cure : gout: its nature, causes, cure, and prevention / by James Alexander.

  • Alexander, James.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Rheumatism: its nature, causes, and cure : gout: its nature, causes, cure, and prevention / by James Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III, The pathology of rheumatism eonsidered so as to account for each symptom of the malady—The phenomena of metastasis, &c. pp. 40—56 CHAPTER IV. Subject continued—Cause of pain—Greater liability to cardiac com- plications in young subjects—Subacute rheumatism, less ten- dency to metastasis, greater tendency to permanent malforma- tion of joints—Chronic rhemnatism pp. 57—64 CHAPTER V. Discrepancy of opinions as to the best mode of treating rheumatism accounted for—First object to diminish vascular excitement— Second, to diminish pain and neutralize morbific matter, and prevent metastasis—Third, to promote convalescence—Bleeding, purgatives, combined with opiates, on the late Dr. Chambers’s plan — Lemon-juice, colchicum, opium, nitrate of potass, vegetable salt of potass, decoct, cinchome—Warm clotliing— General summary of treatment: leeches, fomentations, &c.— Dry warmth—Counter-irritants—Diet—Attention to secretions during convalescence—Hot-air bath—Cold . . . pp. 65—90 GOUT. CHAPTER I. ■ Obscurity of the disease—The fidelity of Sydenham’s description of the disease unsurpassed; his theory of a morbific matter, &c. —Opinions of Cullen, Dr. Prout, Dr. W'atson, Sir Henry Hol- land, Dr. Garrod, Dr. Gairdner—Blood, its function; impure conditions of blood, and of the vascular system in general, which lead to the formation of gout—Infiuence of various causes in in- ducing gouty diathesis—Excesses and errors in diet. pp. 91—103