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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tendon, annular, capsular, or interosse- ous ligament, as the seat of debility and of pain. No conclusion, therefore, can be more natural, than that the Rheuma- tic affections arising from such accidents, are not affections chiefly of the mus- cular fibre, but of that substance which is of the same structure with the parts originally affected. In the sixth place, It would appear from the history of Rheumatism, that the proximate cause of the Acute spe- cies at least, of that disease, is an affec- tion of the aponeurotic expansion of the tendons and membranous covering of the joints. This appears from joints being first affected with pain, and its consequences. In many instances, in- deed, the pain is confined entirely to the joints. At other times, the muscles come to be affected with pains shooting along their course, from one joint to another. Rut is it by the muscular