Observations on the use of the colchicum autumnale in the treatment of gout : and on the proper means of preventing the recurrence of that disorder.

  • Scudamore, Charles, 1779-1849.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Observations on the use of the colchicum autumnale in the treatment of gout : and on the proper means of preventing the recurrence of that disorder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    several years past, been in the familiar habit of using some one or other preparation of this root. The very circumstance of such an indiscriminate employment of this active medicine, must have led to frequent mis- chief. The medical world appears also to be much divided, at present, as to the safe- ty of using this remedy in the treatment of gout. Vague rumours prevail of evil consequences resulting from its influence; and, so far as I can ascertain, an idea has got abroad that paralytic symptoms are an occasional consequence of the free use of this medicine. It surely becomes a consi- deration of very great importance, to deter- mine whether the objections to the employ- ment of colchicum have their foundation in truth or in prejudice. I shall endeavour to treat the subject in a manner quite intelligible to the general reader; for, although I wish also to make it a medical investigation, and to address my-