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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    gular practice, in opposition to empirical me- thods of treatment. I have brought forward many new argu- ments, and new facts and observations; with the design of elucidating the real nature of gout; of setting forth the principles of con- stitutional treatment which I conceive to be well founded ; and of shewing, in this further report, what I consider to be the real merits of Colchicum, as one of the remedies in this disorder. He renders a tribute to the commonwealth of physic, who studies to improve the use of those means which we already possess ; for I believe that it is the fate of many excellent remedies to fall into disrepute and neglect, from an insufficient acquaintance with their properties, and best modes of administration. I wish to set a just value on every discovery of a new and useful medicine ; hut I suspect that the seeking after new remedies for dis- eases has of late been carried so far, as to have grown into a fault. It will afford me the highest gratification.