Rheumatism: its nature, causes, and cure : gout: its nature, causes, cure, and prevention / by James Alexander.

  • Alexander, James.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Rheumatism: its nature, causes, and cure : gout: its nature, causes, cure, and prevention / by James Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    CONTENTS. RHEUMATISM. CHAPTER I. Introduction—Frequency and obscurity of tlie disease—Opinions of Dr. Watson, Dr. Fuller, and the autlior—IJrate of soda, pro- bable materies uiorbi—Physiology of urea and uric acid—Liebig’s theory in the main correct, but sufficient latitude not allowed for disturbing causes in both health and disease—Becquercl’s tables of the comparative quantities of uric acid and urea, as quoted by the late Dr. Golding Bird, reeonsidered—Practical conclusions to be drawn therefrom pp, 1—26 CHAPTER II. Cold and moisture check oxidation of tissue, and thus generate uric acid—Reasons for supposing rheumatism a blood discfise— Reasons for supposing the urate of soda the materies morbi— Enfeebled condition of fibrous tissues essential for the deve- lopment of the disease—Cold and moisture much more favourable to the induction of rheumatism than cold alone—All debiUtatjflg circumstances predispose—Effects of cold most severely felt while in a state of exhaustion—Although the symptoms vary in intensity in every case, they are sufficiently uniform to show their dependence on the existence of same causes—Dr. Taylor’s ob- servations, showing the relative frequency of fatal pericarditis in Bright’s disease and acute rheumatism . . . pp. 27—39