The rheumatic diseases (so called) : with original suggestions for more clearly defining them / by Hugh Lane and Charles T. Griffiths.

Date:
1890
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Credit: The rheumatic diseases (so called) : with original suggestions for more clearly defining them / by Hugh Lane and Charles T. Griffiths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES. iodide of potash, carbonate of magnesia, wine of colchicum, and bicarbonate of potash gives much satisfaction. General Treatment, 9. The question of treatment of chronic rheu- matism has for many years been divided between medicinal on the one hand, and resi- dence at a Spa, for purposes of bathing, on the other ; but a combination of the two seems now to be that which is productive of the best results. A few words on these respectively will here, we think, be relevant. No cases do so well in Bath as the younger subjects, who, having recovered from an attack of acute rheumatism, are left with tender and painful but not swollen joints, or with constant neuralgic pains, which, not giving rise to much annoyance or inconvenience during the day, be- come worse, sometimes almost imbearable, at night, especially when in bed. These are the cases which, happening in youth, will sometimes become completely cured by an average course of thermal water treatment. We say an average