On deafness and noises in the ear arising from rheumatism, gout, and neuralgic headache / by William Harvey.

  • Harvey, William, 1807-1876.
Date:
1876
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Credit: On deafness and noises in the ear arising from rheumatism, gout, and neuralgic headache / by William Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kheumatism, indeed, is to be met with through- out the world ; in the hottest and the coldest climates men suffer from the effects of this widely-spread malady, and its extensive prevalence in this kingdom is a proof that temperate countries are quite as liable to the disease. Tew diseases are to be met with so frequently over the habitable globe, and which affect so many different structures of the human frame. The muscles, the tendinous and nervous structures, the sheaths of tendons, the joints, especially the larger ones, the fibrous bag enveloping the heart, the scalp, and the muscles and pericranium covering the sJcull, the membranes inside the skull covering and protecting the brain, the central organ of sensation and of thought, the brain itself, according to some authors, the heart, lungs, and kidneys, - the stomach and bowels, especially their muscular coats, the eye, the ear and head—the special subject of the present inquiries the spinal marrow and its membranes—all are, more or less, subject to the attacks of this painful disease, and to the alterations and changes it may cause: in fine, there seems scarcely a structure or organ appertaining to the human economy which may not either primarily or secondarily, be the seat of rheumatic disease, or be more or less modified thereby in its structure and actions. This disease may, and does, act differently on