Notes on rheumatism / by Julius Pollock.

  • Pollock, Julius.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Notes on rheumatism / by Julius Pollock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a little above the affected joint rather than over it; and iodine paint must be used with caution, as in certain persons it produces such an inflammation of the skin as amounts almost to erysipelas. Towards the end of any case of rheu- matic fever, no matter what the previous treatment has been, tonics are required; and notliing answers better than a combination of steel and quinine, or steel and strychnine. Up to a few years ago little could have been added to the foregoing sketch of the treatment of articular rheumatism; but in 1874 Dr. Maclagan struck the key-note of a better mode of treatment, which has since been followed up with the greatest success. This physician published a paper in the Lancet (March 4 and 11, 1876), On the Treat- ment of Acute Eheumatism by Salicin,” from which it appeared that having been struck by some analogy between that disease and intermittent fever, Dr. Maclagan con-