An account of the discovery and operation of a new medicine for gout.

Date:: 1803

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the discovery and operation of a new medicine for gout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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The folloxcing Case of Lumbago, (a bad sort of Chronic Rheumatism) is subjoined, in confirmation of the Dis- coverer s frst experience of the salutary properties of this Medicifie:— Mrs. TOOKE, No. 18, London Wall, London, aged thirty-seven, and the mother of six children, was, about the first of August, 1801, suddenly seized, while get- ting out of bed in the morning, with great pain low down in the small of her back and about the hips, attended with much disability of moving. It was judged to be what is called Lumbago. She soon became much enfeebled and dejected. The latter was supposed to arise, in some measure, from the recollection of having been a few years before seized in a simi- lar manner, and for a fortnight, or more, rendered incapable of rising from her chair,