Volume 1

Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton.

  • Sutton, Thomas, 1767-1835.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or of irregular actions in those parts. The sort of connexion, therefore, which exists between morbid causes and effects, being various, constitutes a very important branch of medical knowledge, and which can only be perfected for practical pur- poses, by accurate observation, and _ re- peated experience. The practical advantage, or usefulness, of the observations that are now delivered respecting the cure of the gout, must depend chiefly upon the accuracy of such experience. Hitherto, in the treatment of the gouty paroxysm, the chief attention has been paid to mitigate the symptoms, without entertaining any precise notions respecting the effects that might be pro- duced by acting on the original cause and source of the disease. The view that is now taken on the subject, and the pro- bability of success in the suggested treat- ment, is founded upon the supposition af a very intimate connexion between the original cause, and the external and