On a successful method of treating acute rheumatism by large and frequent doses of bicarbonate and potash / by Alfred Baring Garrod.

  • Garrod, Alfred Baring, 1819-1907.
Date:
1855
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Credit: On a successful method of treating acute rheumatism by large and frequent doses of bicarbonate and potash / by Alfred Baring Garrod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACUTE RHEUMATISM BY LARGE AND FREQUENT DOSES OF BICARBONATE OF POTASH. BY ALFRED BARING GARROD, M.D., PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA, THERAPEUTICS, AND CLINICAL MEDICINE, AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE; PHYSICIAN TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. Received Feb. 12tli.—Read Feb. 13th, 1855. Finding that, although much had been attempted in improving the treatment of acute rheumatism, the disease, imder the most approved plans, was still often very intract- able, I was induced, about three years since, to seek some other method ; and, from certain considerations, tried the one now to be detailed. The success attending my early trials appearing very great, I resolved to continue the use of it for a lengthened period, so as to arrive at some true estimate of its value ; and the present commimication contains the result of the treatment of 51 attacks of this disease, in 50 separate patients, admitted under my care in University College Hospital, from May, 1852, to January, 1855, a period of two years and three quarters. The patients were not selected, but the plan was adopted in all cases of the disease admitted into my wards. Every effort was made