A letter to Dr. Chambers ... on several important points relating to the nature and proper treatment of gout / by Sir Charles Scudamore.

Date:
1839
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Chambers ... on several important points relating to the nature and proper treatment of gout / by Sir Charles Scudamore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    On the contrary, it more commonly brings mi- sery in its train. Various are the proofs that gout induces in the constitution a remarkable degree of morbid nervous sensibility. In no disorder, is the dis- position to severe cramps of the muscles of the legs and feet more shewn, than in gout. Jactitations of the limbs during the fit are sometimes so violent, that the patient has the dread of being thrown out of bed by their force. A gentleman suffered from what he called gout in the stomach, complaining of a sense of coldness in the epigastric region, followed by pain in the clavicles and down both arms, par- ticularly the left ; and occasionally over the chest and stomach a sense of heat like fire ; cramps in the hands in driving or trying to hold any small substance ; jactitations at night, rest- lessness, and frightful dreams. An attack of gout gave only partial relief to these and other symptoms, which were found to depend on a confirmed wrong action of the liver, and which was cured by active treatment. The sensations which in a severe degree