On the treatment of acute and chronic rheumatism of the joints, lumbago, &c.

Date:
[cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: On the treatment of acute and chronic rheumatism of the joints, lumbago, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE TREATMENT OP ACUTE AND CHKONIC EHEUMATISM OF THE JOINTS, LUMBAGO, &c. Having, in another ■work, published about a year ago, given a brief account of the remedial use of a very low temperature in erysipelas, headache, and other cutaneous and neuralgic affec- tions, as well as of its applicability in many surgical operations m lieu of the inhalation of ether or chloroform, I proceed, on the present occasion, to lay before the profession some details respecting another important employment of the same valuable agent in the treatment of one of the most common, painful, and dangerous diseases of this country. I shall shew, by reports of cases of rheumatism in which this remedy has been used, that it is capable of immediately relieving the suffering from this disease; and by much abridging its duration, while it obviates local injury of the joints, of preventing its frequent deplorable effect of breaking up the general health and producing perma- nent lameness. The cases in which it has as yet been employed are too few to justify the assertion, that with these great advan- tages it combines that of preventing the extension (or metastasis, as it has been usually, though improperly termed) of rheumatic inflammation from the extremities to internal paits ; but as such