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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    I shall now proceed to detail several cases which have been treated according to my plan, and in doing so have more especially to acknowledge the liberality and kindness of my friends and colleagues — Hrs. Addison, Babington, and Barlow, and also the assist¬ ance of their clinical reporters. Case I.—Acute Rheumatism—Lemon Juice for Acute symptoms—After Treatment by Tonics. Elizabeth Radford, admitted April 11, 1849, into Guy’s Hospital, under the care of Hr. Babington ; aged 22 years. Has not been well for six months. Suffering occasionally from rheumatic pains. Her knees and ankles have now become suddenly red, swollen, and painful, and her elbow and shoulder-joints are also affected. Pulse 110; skin moist. Ordered— Pulv. Jalapae compositus, 3]. statim. Succi Limonis, gj.; Syr. simplicis, ^ij. ex Aqua, 3V, ter die. 12tli.—Passed a bad night; thirsty; bowels con fined; passed about 1 i pints of urine. Ordered— Extracti Colocynthidis Co. gr. x. statim.—Haus- tus Sennae post horas duas. — Repetatur Mistura.