A letter to Dr. Chambers, F.R.S. K.C.H. etc. etc. on several important points relating to the nature and proper treatment of gout. / By Sir Charles Scudamore.

  • Charles Scudamore
Date:
1839
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Chambers, F.R.S. K.C.H. etc. etc. on several important points relating to the nature and proper treatment of gout. / By Sir Charles Scudamore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tor administration in a pill. Experience has fully proved the utility of the preparation; and the Extractum Colchici aceticum is now ad¬ mitted into our Pharmacopoeia, although the formula laid down is not exactly that which I have stated; nor, in my opinion, one so well adapted for obtaining an efficacious extract. The late Sir Everard Home committed the great and serious mistake of pronouncing the wine of colchicum “.a specific remedy for the cure of gout.” Hence, in one shape or other, colchicum has, for the last twenty-two years, been the favorite remedy resorted to by gouty persons, and also by the medical profession. No remedy has been more universally used ; and I think I may add, with truth, no one more abused. From the misemployment, therefore, of the medicine, much occasional harm would natu¬ rally result, and a heavy reproach fall upon it ; causing general opinion to be much divided on the merits of colchicum : some continuing to cherish it as a valuable remedy, others ex¬ ecrating its qualities as poisonous and destruc¬ tive. The late Dr. Woolaston expressed him-
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