On the treatment of acute rheumatism by salicylate of soda.

  • Sharkey, Seymour John (Sir)
Date:
1878
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    ON THE TEEATMENT OE ACUTE EHEUMATISM BY SALICYLATE OE SODA. By SEYMOUE JOHN SHAEKEY, M.B., EESIDENT ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN. Although a large number of cases of acute rheumatism treated by salicin and its compounds have been published,, it may be useful to give the results of this method of treatment as carried out at St. Thomas’s Hospital^ quoting only exception- ally cases in detail. The remarks made are to be taken simply as products of an experience confined to this hospital. The cases thus treated during the past year have been very numerous^ and I have personally taken notes of about forty, which together with the impressions made upon me by the rest are the basis of the statements made below. Some cases were treated with salicin, some with salicylic acid, but in the great majority salicylate of soda was employed; for the latter not only has the advantage of being readily soluble in water, but it seems also to be more effectual than the other two. At first 30 grains every two or three hours was the quantity prescribed; but latterly 20 grains repeated at the same intervals have been found to answer the purpose equally well, and to be capable of being taken with less chance of unpleasant results. Smaller quantities than these, however, are rarely effectual in the adult.