Observations, with cases illustrative of a new, simple, and expeditious mode of curing rheumatism and sprains, without in the least debilitating the system / by William Balfour. M.D.

  • Balfour, William, 1780-
Date:
1816
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    cause of which has been matter of con- jecture only. Concerning the proximate cause of Rheumatism various opinions have been entertained. Dr. Macbride and others, imagine it to consist in a pecuhar acri- mony ; others in a lentor of the fluids; and Dr. Cullen supposes it to be, in the Acute species, a phlogistic diathesis of the blood, with a peculiar affection of the muscular fibre ; but, in the Chronic, an atony both of the blood-vessels and of the muscular fibres of the part affected, together with a degree of rigi- dity and contraction in the latter, sucli as frequently attends them in a state of atony. That in Acute Rheumatism a phlogis- tic diathesis of the system prevails, admits not of doubt; and that there is an affection of either the muscular fibre, or of the cellular membrane, or of both, is equally certain. An atony in the