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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    Case No. 4.—A delicate boy of 10 was taken with acute rheumatism, and so intense were his sufferings that I was glad to have recourse to opiates at the outset; but in spite of them, of alkahes, colchicum, calomel and opium, and quinine, each in their turn, the disease kept its hold, while within a fortnight there occurred three accessions of pleurisy. In these circumstances, and believing that it would not be warrantable any longer to rely on what I had found to be unavailing remedies, I at once abandoned them and put him on the sul- phurous acid. The change for the better was rapid, and not less remarkable otherwise, for he soon became placid, and enjoyed soft sleep, the physical symptoms gradually ameliorated, and his recovery, although slow, was thenceforward steady and com- plete. He got forty minims every hour for a time, and one interesting fact in connexion with his case is worthy of note. In my presence he said, soon after he had begun the use of the acid, “ Mamma, it is surely the time for you to give me my drops.” I remarked that it was unusual for a child to ask for its medicine, when he replied that “ it always took away the pain.”