Practical remarks on gout, rheumatic fever, and chronic rheumatism of the joints : being the substance of the Croonian Lectures for the present year, delivered at the College of Physicians / by Robert Bentley Todd.

  • Todd, Robert Bentley, 1809-1860.
Date:
1843
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    experiences a relapse, and remains in hospital till the 1st of July. In Observation 85, which is one of M. Bouillaud's mild cases, the patient, a man, aetat. 35, is seized on the 12th of May; on the 20th lie is admitted; bled to three pounds six ounces, and leeched. On the 28th (16th day), his left knee and foot are painful; pulse, 72; bruit de diable. He is discharged on the 20th of June, thirty-nine days from his first seizure. No comment upon these cases is necessary to show that real convalescence is not hastened by M. Bouillaud's plan. Indeed, a return to robust health must be retarded; and there would seem but too much foundation for the fears expressed by Sydenham as to the effects of excessive bleeding; unde non tantum segri vires pro tempore franguntur, sed si paulo merit natura debilior, aliis etiam morbis ad annos aliquot obnoxior fere redditur. In well marked cases of rheumatic fever, Dr. Macleod goes nearly as far as M. Bouil- laud; and proposes, within the first week of their onset, and in individuals of the average degree of robustness, to abstract from twelve to twenty ounces of blood several successive times, in the course of five or six days. But he advises, that venesection should not be repeated,