Gout : its cause, nature, and treatment with directions for the regulation of the diet / by John Parkin.

  • Parkin, John, 1801-1886.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Gout : its cause, nature, and treatment with directions for the regulation of the diet / by John Parkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which, in gout, are usually of short duration, we have a variety of anomalous affections chiefly re- ferrible to the digestive organs. In these cases, there is either an unnatural craving for food or a want of appetite, with nausea, oppression at the stomach after a meal, flatulency, heart-burn, acrid eructations, and, sometimes, vomiting. There is also, generally speaking, a sense of coldness at the pit of the stomach in this particular form of the complaint. At the same time, other symptoms, which usually accompany great derangements of the digestive functions, are found to be present. These are, a costive, and, occasionally, an irri- table or relaxed state of the bowels; the stools being offensive, or unnatural in colour, and showing a deficiency or alteration in the quantity and quality of the bile. The urinary secretion also partakes of the general disturbance; it becomes scanty, high coloured, and deposits a pink or lateritious sediment; sometimes, but rarely, it is light coloured and copious, without any sediment. In addition to the above, there is pain, or uneasiness, in the hypochondrium, with a sallow, or yellowish, cast of countenance—thus indicating, like the state of the bowels just referred to, a faulty action in the liver, and morbid change in the secretion of bile. Sometimes, notwithstanding the above symptoms, the appetite continues good, but more or less irritation or slight fever generally follows