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

  • Hume, Gustavus, 1732-1812.
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    if an habit was predisposed to that disease. I was much connected with a miserable nervous valetudinarian of forty years old, who lived principally on chickens, fricasied, and from his infancy could neither eat nor bear the sight of rabbits flesh. On a particular day, after having taken the usual meal as supposed, he told his servant that the chickens, which he had eaten did not sit well in his stomach. The man replied, that it was rabbit by mistake, and not chicken. He instantly became sick, and was seized with a vomiting, which con- tinued with very little remission for twenty- four hours, when an inflammation appeared over the right foot, which terminated in ab- solute gout, and since that period his health has been much restored ; but, whenever in- disposed, he bathes his feet, and takes a vomit, w'hich, though it does not always pro- duce the gout, yet perspiration and rest ge- nerally follow.—I recollect, some years ago, to have visited a gentleman of a bilious habit, whose