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

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    a disease which has generally gone ujijder the name of phrenitis; and, with the name, has been conducted, in the cure, on the same principles. As the account I am about to give of this disease will be of some length, I am obliged to adopt some term which may express my allusion to this last affection. This will serve to avoid the necessity of frequent circumlocution, and the con- fusion which would otherwise result in the progress of the narrative. The name, therefore, which I have adopted, though possibly not the most appro- priate, will serve to convey a notion of an essential symptom of the disease, and will be sufficiently explicit for my pre- sent purpose. Dehrium tremens, and likewise the treatment, which will be pointed out as we proceed, are known to some profes- sional men to a certain extent; but to many they are wholly unknown: and the disease has not yet taken a station in