A treatise on gout / by Sir Dyce Duckworth.

  • Dyce Duckworth
Date:
1889
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Credit: A treatise on gout / by Sir Dyce Duckworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being very pcalatable. Saratoga is (as I can testify after several visits) salubrious and sufficiently attractive. The waters are slightly aperient. The dietetic discipline necessary for gouty patients is, perhaps, hardly enforced as it should be, but, as a matter of fact, there are not as yet many truly gouty patients in the United States to make use of the course. UriaCtE (near Grenoble, France).—Uriage possesses one of the best-ordered thermal establishments in France. The waters are saline, slightly arsenical and sulphureous, with a temperature of 8l° F. Their use is adapted to the class of cases for which Harrogate is available, skin-disorders, eczema, herpes, and psoriasis being well-treated here. The place is largely resorted to, bath- ing being vigorously carried on. St. Clair Springs (Michigan, U.S.A.).—There are two springs here, and a good establishment in the Oakland Hotel. The alkaline chloride is most employed, but the sulphur chalybeate is also available. These were discovered looo feet down while boring for petroleum. The springs are largely resorted to by American and Canadian patients. An inspection of them in 1886 led me to form a high opinion of these waters. 6. Sulphureous Waters.—The main indications for the employ- ment of sulphureous waters in gout are chronicity and want of tone. Skin-affections commonly derive great benefit, espe- cially psoriasis, dry. eczema, prurigo of all varieties, and acne. Muscular pains, stiff joints, cramps, and many aches of the gouty, often called rheumatic, are oftentimes remarkably amenable to treatment by sulphur, both externally and internally. Portal congestion, constipation, and hsemorrhoidal tendency are also markedly under the influence of sulphureous treatment, hydro- therapeutic or otherwise. Sulphur is held in but feeble combination in the various sul- phureous mineral waters in the form of sulphides of calcium, magnesium, and hydrogen. In Germany sulphur has long been used as an anti-arthritic remedy, and, in precipitated form, is still prescribed to be dusted in the shoes, whence it distinctly impregnates the system. The best of the sulphui^eous waters contain saline matters, to which, as well as to the sulphides and free sulphuretted hydrogen, much of their good effects are due. Harrogate is the type of such waters. Aix-la-Chapelle (Rhenish Prussia).—Aix-la-Chapelle has a well-established reputation, but is now more frequented for the treatment of venereal than of gouty ailments. This notoriety
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