Letters on the cause and treatment of the gout, in which some digressive remarks on other medical subjects are interspersed / By the late Robert Hamilton, M.D. of Lynn Regis.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1721-1793.
Date:
1806
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Credit: Letters on the cause and treatment of the gout, in which some digressive remarks on other medical subjects are interspersed / By the late Robert Hamilton, M.D. of Lynn Regis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    op paye ftom the peres in rout—-All odours’ depend on effluvyia of a) fluid nature—As the gouty fluid es- capes the swelling subsides. ‘This only takes place after afew of the first fits of the gout; because the coats of the vessels become thickened and the liga- ‘ments, &c., about the joints enlarged ; which seems to be owing to the inspissation of the residuura of i¢ine' Getra vasatU@GMAId reseveveweievysuveossmssdusdengenen 86, 87, 88 The coagulable !ymph being mixed with gross earthy matter and inspissated, lays the foundation of that decrepitude which those expetience who have much: of the gout entailed upon them: since as'age ad- vances there seems to be an aécumulation of disease aoe Be Circumstances besides the smelt which evince the ex- . istence of the gouty MUid rere ese cece cre needs . 90 It being concluded that there is a gouty fluid, obser- vations arising from that conclusion \......cc0...seseee Calearious concretions concomitants of the disease in ‘the advanced periods of lifey with other distressing ‘ symptoms—this is not however thé lot of every one —Cause of calearious coneretions in gouty constitu tions considered— Observations upott bones .....0..+ 93 Abstract of Baron Vaniivieten's a account of the form- , ation of DONCS.. seecessersnssesscsenseeecnserteers vrsesene Day 95, 96, 97, 98,99 The cretaceous earth of the bones allowed, according to the theory of Baron Vanswieten, to be the origin of the chalk stones in gout, but the process of their collection on the injured parts considered in another point of view, from examining it by the rules of | Modern chemMMMy we ness, . cosevoreneadesactwes theo eyercan 101 he medium by which the osseous materials are held | in solution to be carried through the course of circu’ lation, is the aerial acid or fixed air, not in an acid state, but in combinations with substances of an al- Malescent nataneiawas Weeden Eater oe ove 102’ Jnall adult subjects the superfuous' matter of the earth of bones must :be excreted from the body—for this ° purpose the kidneysiseem to be chiefly employed by PALO LC i pric sGicencedtacsnes sas sonasei sts sespesvecseeerecenedaa 10%: Conjecture on the cause of ‘the formation of chalk stones from the aerial acid evaporating; being no of longer in the course of circulation, when the fluid | —%