Gout and rheumatic gout: a new method of cure / by John W. Foakes.

  • Foakes, John Weston.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Gout and rheumatic gout: a new method of cure / by John W. Foakes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there has been a sufficient quantity of Colchicum given in the hope to allay pain, the disease may, it is true, disappear from the extremities, bid it does not leave the patient. The malady is not thrown off, hut suppressed. The attack being thus treated, soon reappears in a worse form, and larger doses of the drug are then required to produce any effect, until finally, the patient shows unmistakable symptoms of Colchicum poisoning, in the form of intense nervous de- pression, which if continued might cause partial paralysis of some vital organ, or a dangerous dianhoea, these symptoms only cease when the doses of Colchicum are discontinued. Here is another instance, from the same author (p. 339] : “Some years ago I was desired to visit a gentleman who had just gone through a very painful fit of the Gout, under the care of a very eminent physician, now dead. He had quarrelled with his doctor in consequence of the troublesome, but veiy wise, advice the latter had given. I found that the fit, from which this very foolish individual thought he was emerging, had not at all been permitted to run its course. Notwithstanding its duration, no issue had been given to the disease. It had been stopped, in limine, by very heavy doses of Colchicum, against all remonstrance on the part of his physician, and the earnest en reaties of his wife, for even she had learned by experience 16 ° y °f this course- The consequence was a series of C