On the pathology and treatment of acute rheumatism : being the Lumleian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1853 / by James Alderson.

  • Alderson, James, 1795-1882.
Date:
1853
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Credit: On the pathology and treatment of acute rheumatism : being the Lumleian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1853 / by James Alderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I shall hope thereby to solve the difficulties of a pathological condition which has been involved in much obscurity. I shall occupy my Tirst Lecture with a review of all the data on which I hope to estabhsh my views. Let me here apologize for the elementary cha- racter of the physiological details which I shall have in the first instance to bring forward:—To lay them down, by way of groundwork, appears to me indis-^ pensable. On the present occasion I shall only be able to deduce from these data a general outline of my proposition. In the Second Lecture I shall go minutely into the arguments for and against it, and endeavour to test the truth of it by all the collateral evidence which bears on the subject. I shall also review the various h3rpotheses which have been received or proposed. My Third Lecture will be on the Action of Reme- dies, with an endeavour to elucidate the truth of my proposition, by comparing the actual results of dif- ferent, nay, conflicting modes of treatment, with those to be looked for supposing it true. If we open the pages of any of the ancient authors, as, for example, of Paulus JEgineta, we cannot fail to admire the large proportion of truth which the acute observation of the ancients enabled them to deduce from those very slender premises which lay before them, devoid as they also were of means to pursue more than a very superficial research into the nature