Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other 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 inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Ivent, nor in my intercourse with medical practitioners in the metropohs, who have employed opium in the cure of the dis- ease. From one of the latter, a respect- able physician, I received in substance the following answer.— I know, from expe- rience, that opium is of great use in this disease, and that when sleep is procured, the patient most frequently gets better; but I have nothing to guide me to form an opinion from, as to what may be the state of the brain, nor in regard to the modus operandi of the remedy, than that the measure of its beneficial efficacy is by procuring sleep.^'—-This, then, is the sum of what I have collected from others. I shall now proceed to commu- nicate the information I have acquired, from my own experience, in regard to the history, treatment, and nature of the affection: and for which purpose, I shall commence by giving a history of the dis- ease in as condensed a form as possible. Frequently the attacks of this disease