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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    this particular treatment, give way to the dictates of prudence and common sense. As an sera in the treatment of gout, the introduction of the Eau Medicinale must be recorded as the most remarkable. This medicine appears to have been first known in France, rather more than forty years ago, and was prepared by Monsieur Husson, an officer in the French service; but its vir- tues were extolled by him for diseases in general, and it was never much employed in France in the treatment of gout. At an early period, the administration of it was al- together prohibited by the French Govern- ment. It came into use in this country about fifteen years ago; and it may truly be as- serted, that never did a remedy gain such rapid and general popularity as this seeming panacea for all the sufferings of gout. Ne- ver, perhaps, were the delusive powers of palliative treatment more strongly exempli-