A treatise on the nature and cure of gout and rheumatism : including general considerations on morbid states of the digestive organs; some remarks on regimen : and practical observations on gravel / by Charles Scudamore.

  • Scudamore, Charles, 1779-1849.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of gout and rheumatism : including general considerations on morbid states of the digestive organs; some remarks on regimen : and practical observations on gravel / by Charles Scudamore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    some part of its course, but especially iu the epigastric reo-ion; tremors, and internal Hutterings. Sometimes the patient going to bed with no expectation of the ap- proaching evil, sleeps through the night, but is distressed with some horrid dream; and in the morning finds that the demon of his vision has been the gout. A gentleman, who has for many years been afflicted with gout, for a day or two before his attack, has alternate chills and flushings, is extremely nervous, and he says, without the power of restraint, sheds an abundance of tears. A deaf patient complains that at the appearance of the fit, his infirmity is so much increased, that he cannot possibly be made to hear. In one person, a heat of the eyes with slight mem- branous inflammation, is one of the usual premonitory symptoms. A cough, with much mucous secretion in the tracheal membrane, sometimes precedes the fit; yielding when the gout becomes fixed, or occasionally continuing with the other symptoms. This description of cough is to be distinguished en- tirely from the recent catarrhal cough and symptoms, which sometimes usher in a paroxysm, when exposure to wet and cold has been the exciting cause. The mucous membranes of parts which have been once affected with disease, or which are prone to disease, are much disposed to acquire a state of unhealthy action ; in apparent sym- pathy, either with that condition of the constitution which borders on a fit of the gout; or in which, the disease is threatening its return, but does not develope itself. denly and entirely left him. I have met with a similar case, and which I shall more particularly describe, when treating of chronic gout. c