An essay on the nature and causes of the gout. With a few conjectures on the probability of its cure / By Marmaduke Berdoe, M.D.

  • Berdoe, Marmaduke, 1743?-
Date:
1772
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Credit: An essay on the nature and causes of the gout. With a few conjectures on the probability of its cure / By Marmaduke Berdoe, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In his differtation on the porta venarum porta malorum, he feems convinced that this repletion was fixed within the abdomen, and predominated mod about the time of the Equinox. In confequence Sthaal preferred bleeding in the foot to the arm, becaufe he was of opinion that this phlethora was fixed within the different ramifications of the vena porta, and imagined that the tibial had a more dire6i affinity with thefe, than the brachial veins. When nature cannot, there¬ fore, a£t of herfelf, bleeding in the feet feems much more proper to unload the different blood-veffels of the abdominal vifcera, and to prevent the dangerous confequences of fuch obftru&ions. A difagreable train of affli&ions are fure to fpring from them, but if nature is not too much curbed in her ac« cuftomed talk, fhe generally brings on two methods of unloading the inteftines and vifcera. The gout and hemorrhoids. Thefe are the two diforders which Sthaal thought it dangerous to prevent or cure. t In