An inaugural dissertation on the diseases of old age : as connected with a plethoric state of the system / by John Scudder.

  • Scudder, John, 1793-1855.
Date:
1815
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    spirituous and vinous liquors, particularly acid wines, which not only replete the blood vessels, but debilitate the system. It was owing to the use of the latter, that this disease was observed by Sennertus to be endemic in Moravia.* Gout seldom attacks females who live tempe- rately; and when it does, it usually appears after the cessation of the menses. This was par- ticularly observed by Hippocrates ;f and this it might readily be anticipated would be the case, as py this discharge, that plethora, of the sys- tem, which takes place after its cessation, is pre- vented. Gout is usually considered as a disease of de- bility, and doubtless debility is produced from the long continued plethora, which the applica- tion of fresh stimuli is constantly increasing. The equilibrium between the solids and fluids * Arthridem in Moravia esse endemiam, ob acrimoniam acidam et austeram hujus loci vinis, pra> ceeteris inditam ; Tract, de Arthride, cap. 2.