A letter to Dr. Chambers ... on several important points relating to the nature and proper treatment of gout / by Sir Charles Scudamore.

Date:
1839
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Chambers ... on several important points relating to the nature and proper treatment of gout / by Sir Charles Scudamore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    error; and, in chronic cases, to seek to alter the state of the hlood itself. I have, in my different publications on Gout and on Colchicum, related striking examples, shewing the total failure of Wilson’s tincture, Reynolds’ specific, and the wine of colchicum, as curative means; and that their effect was so much on the contrary, that in the same ratio of their being freely used, and depended upon as a specific remedy, so did the gout return with more and more frequency, while at the same time great mischief was inflicted upon the digestive organs and the nervous system. With such mal-practice the profession is only to he partially charged. At all times it has been greatly the fashion for gouty patients to take the management of their cases into their own hands. Is this a judicious proceed- ing ? Rarely does it happen that the physician himself, when under disease, is wise in pre- scribing for his own case; so easily is the judgment of the invalid misled by his sensa- tions. When pain disturbs the nerves, the reasoning faculty is no longer at the same sure command.