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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    CASE VI. On the 15th of December 1814, f was called to a young man, Simon Stewart, at the west end of the town, whom I found in a condition that al- most beggars description. Pale, ghast- ly, emaciated, he had been a martyr, for three years uninterruptedly^ to Rheu- matism in its most cruel forms. His fore-arms, half bent, felt like two boards, and were so immoveably fixed in the prone position^ that he could not see the palms of his hands till they were elevated above his eyes. Had no mo- tion at the wrists; the right Carpus, es- pecially, was pained, swelled, distorted; and the command he had over his fin- gers was so small, that for a consider- able time he was under the necessity of being fed by others. In the left knee. 4