Volume 1

Practical remarks on gout, rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatism of the joints : being the substance of the Croonian lectures for the present year, delivered at the College of Physicians / by Robert Bentley Todd.

  • Todd, Robert Bentley, 1809-1860.
Date:
1843
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    Urine of Birds and Insects, 71. The Gouty Matter probably first derived from the Stomach and Duo- denum, 73. Nature of the Gouty Matter, 73. Section V. Treatment of the Gouty Diathesis, 75. Proofs that it admits of favourable modification, 76. Quantity of the Food, 78. Connexion between the functions of the Stomach and Liver, 78. Use of Diluents, 80. Importance of attending to the Action of the Skin, 81. Nature of the Cutaneous Secretions, 83. Entozoon folliculorum, 85. Mode of counteracting the formation of Lithic Acid, 86. Dr. Philip’s Experiments, 87. Effects of a Vegetable Diet, 89. Object of Magendie’s Enquiries, 91. Cases, 92. The Lithic Diathesis not referrible simply to the Influence of Food, 94. Magendie’s, Philip’s, and Liebig’s Error, 94. The True Source of Lithic Acid, 95. Cases of Lithic Acid Deposits connected with Malignant Disease, 96. Diet most suitable to Persons of Gouty Diathesis, 98. Beer, 99. Treatment of the Paroxysm of Gout, 100. Mer- curial and Saline Purgatives most useful, 101. Local Treatment, 102. Colchicum, 103. Two-fold action of Colchicum, 104. Hints for the guidance of the Practitioner in the Employment of Colchicum, 105. Colchicum chiefly applicable to the Sthenic Form of Gout, 106,