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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    pear to those who derive all their knowledge from his account, too insignificant to deter them from the practice. Instead, however, of being so trivial a complaint, it is, as Mr. Parkinson remarks, one that requires the utmost skill. Some- times it is an inflammation of the stomach ; sometimes a spasmodic affection ; and some- times the iliac passion. Mr. Parkinson, therefore, thinks, that although Dr. King- lake has recommended the cooling plan, not doubting its efficacy, or its safety in every case, it is so dangerous as not to be justifi- able, either in the inflammatory rheumatism, or in the gout; since ill effects have often arisen from the practice, at a distant period of time. Mr. Parkinson adduces several instances, in which the gout in the extremities was cured by repellents ; but, as he remarks, in- stead of being eradicated, it soon brought on such evils as experience would lead us to ex- pect. In the first case, it fell on the head, and caused excruciating pain ; in the second, on the mediastinum ; and in the third, on the head and heart, followed by death. In