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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    demonstrates itself, or when the disease has lately occurred ; for if the medicine should not happen to operate, it may add to the irritation of the gouty cause, which, under these circumstances, 1s readily brought into action, and which unitedly- may occasion an attack of spasm in the bowels, that I have ob- served to occur through these means, This is relieved by accelerating the ope- ration of purging, or by giving a dose of opium to appease the pain, and as ‘soon as possible afterwards to operate effectually on the bowels. : The prevention of frequent fits ae the gout, if what has been above stated is properly attended to, will be pro- moted also by rendering the fits as short as possible, when they occur. ‘The gout is known to extend its influence in fre- quency, duration, and to various parts of the body, in proportion to the number, severity, and length of the paroxysms. ‘These observations have long been made.