The treatment of rheumatic diseases by lemon juice: with illustrative cases from hospital practice / By G. Owen Rees.

  • Rees, G. O. (George Owen), 1813-1889.
Date:
1849
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Credit: The treatment of rheumatic diseases by lemon juice: with illustrative cases from hospital practice / By G. Owen Rees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE TREATMENT QE RHEUMATIC DISEASES BY LEMON JUICE. In a recent number of the Medical Gazette I directed attention to the beneficial effects produced by the exhibition of lemon juice in rheumatic diseases. Since the publication of that notice the remedy has been used by several practitioners with very marked success; so much so, indeed, that I am inclined to believe we may now consider it quite as efficacious, if not more so, than any of the preparations of colchicum, which have for so many years enlisted the confidence of the profession in acute rheumatic affections. Lemon juice certainly lowers the pulses of those suffering from acute rheumatism in as marked a degree, and as quickly, as colchicum does, when exhibited in medicinal doses, while the early relief from pain is such as we seldom obtain by the use of the latter remedy. During our experience at Guy's Hospital, several of the cases of rheumatism treated by lemon juice have B