A treatise on the nature and cure of rheumatism ; with observations on rheumatic neuralgia, and on spasmodic neuralgia, or tic douloureux. / By Charles Scudamore.

  • Scudamore, Charles, 1779-1849.
Date:
1827
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of rheumatism ; with observations on rheumatic neuralgia, and on spasmodic neuralgia, or tic douloureux. / By Charles Scudamore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    cumstances, that we may reasonably infer the ex- istence of a disposition derived from hereditary structure. bodily structure, and temperament.—The early years of infancy are, for the most part, ex- empted from rheumatism. I have occasionally seen a young child affected with acute rheuma- tism ; but it is comparatively of rare occurrence. Dr. Heberden observes, “ The rheumatism has appeared so early as in a child of only four years old ; and I have .seen several affected w ith it at the age of nine years.In the Medical and Chirurgical Review for October, 1817, Dr. Davis, in his report of the Universal Dispensary, relates that “ at the end of March, and in the beginning of April, se- veral cases of acute rheumatism w ere admitted in children of three, four, five, six, and seven years of age, and upwards.” Aged persons are liable to the chronic form of the complaint, but seldom to the acute. As life advances, the fibrous textures, in common w ith other parts of the body, lose much of their original sensibility, and are not so susceptible of inflam- matory action. Bichat makes the following re-