Rheumatism and rheumatic gout treated on antiseptic principles / by James Dewar.

  • Dewar, Sir James, (1842-1923)
Date:
1871
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Credit: Rheumatism and rheumatic gout treated on antiseptic principles / by James Dewar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    a threatening which left no doubt on her mind that she was about to be bedridden for weeks to come, and she made her arrangements accordingly. Her husband, however, had himself derived great benefit from the topical application of the acid in facial neuralgia, and he suggested a trial to his wife, who immediately carried it out. A small towel was soaked in acid and laid over the hip, this was covered with gutta-percha and fixed by a binder. Thus circumstanced she went to sleep, and awoke in the morning perfectly free from uneasiness. Case No. 8.—A middle-aged man, a tailor, came to me some months ago suffering intensely from neuralgia in the eyebrow, which he said had under- gone scarcely any intermission for ten weeks. I prescribed for him Sir Charles Bell’s croton-oil pill and the immediate application of the acid. He returned to me by arrangement in eight hours, and reported himself much relieved, and under the con- tinued treatment the disease had entirely disap- peared within three days. The skin of his brow was severely excoriated, and he said that the appli- cation of the acid now gave him great pain, which, however, although intense, was of a different charac-