An inaugural dissertation on the diseases of old age : as connected with a plethoric state of the system / by John Scudder.

  • Scudder, John, 1793-1855.
Date:
1815
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    Swieten observes that he could fortel it by these symptoms.* The method of preventing this disease also proves it to depend on plethora. This consists in abstinence from strong stimulants* confine- ment to a low diet, and keeping the different excretory vessels pervious It is owing to a free perspiration that persons so generally es- cape the gout in the summer season; and if exercise be added, it gives tone to the system, and renders it less liable to a succeeding attack. Van Swieten relates the case of a priest who had long suffered with gout, induced by a rich living which he enjoyed; but being taken by the pi- rates of Barbary and detained in a state of slave- ry for two years, and being obliged to work in the gallies with a very spare diet, he was com- pletely and permanently cured. The occasional use of bloodletting will also prevent this disease, and even in those who will not renounce their intemperate habits.t Angina pectoris is a disease frequently oc- * Commentaries on 1010 Aph. of Boerhaave. f MS. Notes on Hosack's Lectures.