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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    short; and the frequent returns of the paroxysm afterwards have tended to diminish the number of the advocates for this mode of treatment. It has, however, proved, that the gout may, in general, with great security, be interfered with, by local means, as the instances of fatal cases after this treatment, in comparison to the number who have employed it, have been very few, and therefore cannot be precisely attributed — to this remedy. The external symptoms of the gout, however, after being thus subdued in one part, have been observed to make their appearance in another, in some instances, and the same effects have been remarked to ensue from the applica- tion of oil of camphor (an East India remedy some years ago used for the cure of gout) to the inflamed part under this disease. If, therefore, the gout is at all disposed to attack internal parts on being disturbed on the surface, remedies merely local would, doubtless, encourage such