Observations on the use of the colchicum autumnale in the treatment of gout : and on the proper means of preventing the recurrence of that disorder.

  • Scudamore, Charles, 1779-1849.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Observations on the use of the colchicum autumnale in the treatment of gout : and on the proper means of preventing the recurrence of that disorder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    OBSERVATIONS USE OF COLCHICUM IN GOUT, &c. &c. &c. There is not, probably, a more interest- ing medical question at the present moment, than the propriety of using the Colchicum Autumnale, or Meadow Saffron, in the treat- ment of Gout. The public mind is prone to run into ex- tremes of thinking and acting, in regard to any remedy of a popular nature. Almost every individual in society is become ac- quainted with the name of the meadow saffron; and most gouty persons have, for B