Remarkable cures, of gouty, bilious, and nervous cases / related by the patients themselves, and published at their desire, in sundry letters to John Scot, M.D. ...

  • Scot, John.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Remarkable cures, of gouty, bilious, and nervous cases / related by the patients themselves, and published at their desire, in sundry letters to John Scot, M.D. ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was (clzed fuddenly with a moft excruciating pain under the jfhort ribs of my right fide ^ it was fomewhat relieved by a glafsof brandy, but foon returned with redoubled violence, extending like a cramp or fpafm all over Jtny arms, {boulders and neck, fo that I was unable to move even a finger without fuftering the molt dreadful agonies, as if the nerves and finews all over the parts affii&ed were actually under immediate laceration ; by di- rection of a phyfician of eminence I was blooded, which did not much relieve me, but feme warm cordials, ordered afterwards by the fame phyfician, made me perfpire a little, and at the end of twenty-four hours the pain abated ; 1'ome fmart purges which I took increafed the relief; but for three days complete I was unable to leave my bed; and after all, the difeafe only feemed to change its Ita- lian, and fix in the ftomacb, neck and breaft, extending as far as the fhoulders ; I was in danger of being choaked with wind; and an extraordinary fwelling in all my veins,, and fenfe of ftrangulation every half hour about my throat, together with fo acute a pain extending acrofs my breaft, from one fhoulder to the other, that i remained fixed and jivitted in whatever fpot I happened to be at the time I was feized ; and three or four times in every night was obliged to jump out of bed, left 1 fhould be ftrangled, and to (land ftill for a co r< fid er able time unable to move ; for the leaft motion exafperated the force of the lacerating fpafm that feemed to tear to pieces every thing upon my breaft, arms, and neck. In the courfe of four years I confultcd feveral of the moft eminent phyficians in Lon- don, and took a variety of other advice and abundance of medicines* but without any material abatement of my com-