Observations on the angina pectoris, gout, and cow pox / by Gustavus Hume.

  • Hume, Gustavus, 1732-1812.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Observations on the angina pectoris, gout, and cow pox / by Gustavus Hume. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    where seeds of gout, scurvy, or some other attached malady had not preexisted, either in the individuals so affected, or .amongst some of their ancestry, which from sup- pression, counteraction, or where the innate strength is unequal to a regular forming, maturing, and expelling the effects of a pri- mary peccant cause, by the natural modes, or any favourable substitution; then, in such cases, the head, chest, or some principal part of the nervous system, becomes more or less affected, and consequences are sooner or later fatal, in proportion to the constitutional im- pulse, causing such morbid action j which is in a great degree exemplified by the process of a small pox, even Avhen brought on by inoculation, after the most correct prepara- tion ; where we have frequently observed a patient, especially if very young or delicate, to sink under repeated convulsions, before any natural exertion of the constitution could libe- rate the nervous system, by a protrusion of ® 2 eruptions,