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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    for administration in a pill. Experience has fully proved the utility of the preparation; and the Extraction Colchici aceticum is now ad- mitted into our Pharmacopoeia, although the formula laid down is not exactly that which I have stated ; nor, in my opinion, one so well adapted for obtaining an efficacious extract. The late Sir Everard Home committed the great and serious mistake of pronouncing the wine of colchicum “ a specific remedy for the cure of gout.” Hence, in one shape or other, colchicum has, for the last twenty-two years, been the favorite remedy resorted to by gouty persons, and also by the medical profession. No remedy has been more universally used ; and I think I may add, with truth, no one more abused. From the misemployment, therefore, of the medicine, much occasional harm would natu- rally result, and a heavy reproach fall upon it; causing general opinion to be much divided on the merits of colchicum : some continuing- to cherish it as a valuable remedv, others ex- ecrating its qualities as poisonous and destruc- tive. The late Ur. Woolaston expressed him-