An answer to Doctor Kinglake showing the danger of his cooling treatment in the gout / by John Ring.

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821.
Date:
1816
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Credit: An answer to Doctor Kinglake showing the danger of his cooling treatment in the gout / by John Ring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    a circumstance which very seldom happens in the gout. He then proceeds to offer some remarks on Dr. Kinglake’s practice, the application of cold water; which he considers to be fraught with the greatest danger, as tending to cause the retrocession of the gout. He thinks Dr. Kinglake has not examined the doctrines of the highest authorities in the healing art with sufficient attention, to jus- tify him in speaking contemptuously of their opinions; and in confounding with popular prejudice, what has received the most solemn sanction of medical erudition. He observes, that the most celebrated writers on the gout, have particularly noticed its disposition, when suddenly suspended in the part which it first attacks, to affect some vital organ; and regarded this retrocession of the disease, as a circumstance highly to be dreaded. He also observes, that every prac- titioner, of the least experience, must have seen, and seen with alarm, patients labour- ing under that agonizing complaint, the gout in the stomach; in which the pale and shrunk countenance, and anxiety of the prae- cordia, portend the most imminent danger. c