Rheumatism and rheumatic gout treated on antiseptic principles / by James Dewar.

  • Dewar, Sir James, (1842-1923)
Date:
1871
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Credit: Rheumatism and rheumatic gout treated on antiseptic principles / by James Dewar. 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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    RHEUMATISM AND RHEUMATIC UOUT TREATED ON ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLES. The remarkable success wbich has of late years attended intelligent and weU-directed attempts to prevent or arrest disease, in whatever stage of its progress we may have found it, offers to us the assurance that, by diligent pursuit of the same prin- ciple of action, we shall be encouraged by the achievement of fm’ther satisfactory results. That such is no new dream of an enthusiast can be established by the testimony of numberless, both professional and lay, observers, who, having been induced to try this unwonted system of treatment, were soon convinced of its intrinsic importance. And this is equally true both as to sulphurous and