Practical researches on the nature, cure, and prevention of gout, in all its open and concealed forms : partly translated and condensed from the French of Guilbert and Hallé : with a critical examination of some celebrated remedies and modes of treatment employed in the disease / by James Johnson, esq.

Johnson, James, 1777-1845.

Date:: 1819

Credit: Practical researches on the nature, cure, and prevention of gout, in all its open and concealed forms : partly translated and condensed from the French of Guilbert and Hallé : with a critical examination of some celebrated remedies and modes of treatment employed in the disease / by James Johnson, esq. 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.

Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Cover

9/132

public at large, a short, yet comprehensive view— not of what one man, or one nation, has said or thought of the nature, cure, and prevention of Gout, but what the wisest, the most learned, and the most experienced physicians, of every age and country, have agreed upon respecting the above- mentioned circumstances. If there can be a spe- cies of evidencfe, above all others the most con- vincing, on any particular point, it is a well digested evidence of this kind. In presenting to the public the following little work, for which I am greatly indebted to the re- searches of two eminent foreign physicians, M. Guilbert and Hall6, I am quite confident that I do a service to my brethren and the community at large. A most erroneous and fatal idea is gone abroad, and is countenanced by some of the profession, who ought to know better, that a fit of constitu- tional gout may, in a few hours, be expelled the system, by certain specifics ; as, for instance, the Eau Medicinale; or a late refinement on that remedy, the Colchicum Wine. Now that this last medicine has often the power or property of checking at once the gouty paroxysm, or external form of the disease, I admit; but that it lessens the sum total of gouty action in the system, I deny most firmly. On the contrary, in almost every instance, where these “ safe, easy, and sud-

Licence and re-use

Contents