Volume 1

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

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    inactive, for some time, in so far as external. symptoms. are concerned, but with certainty repeating its attacks at short intervals. The frequent renewal of the disease can only be obviated by its being more completely subdued, or the alimentary canal allowed to right itself, by an abstinence induced, and to a certain degree persevered in for a time, which the gout will imperiously occasion. If, however, the treatment of this disorder by cold applications should be found to be somewhat want- ing in its permanent effects, it will, I trust, have the merit of introducing a somewhat different usage in respect to ‘the state of temperature in which the gouty part is kept, by tending to show the impropriety ‘of, and causing to be dismissed, those artificial means of oc- casioning heat that have been long used, and which encourage, according to my observation, greater external disease and