Observations on the nature and cure of gout; on nodes of the joints; and on the influence of certain articles of diet, in gout, rheumatism, and gravel / by James Parkinson.

Date:
1805
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of gout; on nodes of the joints; and on the influence of certain articles of diet, in gout, rheumatism, and gravel / by James Parkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    walking in the pity, much fatigued, he was sud, denly affected with a violent palpitation of the heart, a slight pain at the pit of the stomach, and guch a failure of strength that he could hardly keep from falling. He, however, remained in town, and having completed the business of the day, walked in the evening to his dwelling-house, being a distance of about two miles. The following morning he returned to town, passed through the business of the day with cqnsiderable inconve- nience, and returned in the evening still more ' languid and exhausted. Thus he continued to persevere in exertion, walking daily to town, as- cending and descending repeatedly two or three lofty pair of stairs, traversing different parts of the city, and returning home on foot in the even- ing, lentil the sixth day. Late in the evening of the sixth day, he was first seen by the author, who found him with a countenance denoting a high degree of languor, and requiring every hour almpst some highly nu- tritive matter to be taken into the stomach, to di- minish the distressing sense of debility M'ith which he appeared tq be borne down. He complained of slight pain at the pit of the stomach, an un- common palpitation of the heart, accompanied by a peculiar indescribable sensation resembling a