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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    before I saw him. Scarcely a joint had escaped, and he was quite lame in both wrists and hands. I at once had the joints swathed with lint soaked in sulphurous acid, and covered with gutta-percha ; he took internally a tea-spoonful of acid in a wine- glass of cold water every third hour for some days, and his improvement was not long deferred. Case No. 2.—A boy of 12 was sent home from school in a state of high fever, with severe pain in his hip-joint. He had had rheumatic fever once before, so that I was on the alert, and at once applied a long splint as a precautionary measure, and a fold of lint soaked in acid over the groin, and this likewise covered with gutta-percha. Forty drops of acid were administered internally every second hour ; and under this mode of treatment it was found that within twenty-four hours every un- favourable symptom had disappeared. Case No. 3.—Another boy similarly circum- stanced had along with rheumatic joints an attack of pleurisy. A few leeches were applied to his chest, the acid was given him in small doses, frequently repeated, and in a few days he was well.