Rheumatism, gout and neuralgia, as affecting the head and ear : with remarks on some forms of headache, in connextion with deafness / by William Harvey.

  • Harvey, William, 1806-1876.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Rheumatism, gout and neuralgia, as affecting the head and ear : with remarks on some forms of headache, in connextion with deafness / by William Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at a particular age in the sufferers. The el - several brothers, a medical man, formerly in prac- tice in this city, had a paroxysm of jzout, for the first and only time in his life, in the forefinger of the right hand, when he was verging on the thirtieth year of his age. At precisely the same age, his eldest son. who is also in the practice of our pro- ion, in the same locality, had a paroxysm of gout in the same hand. That, however, has not been his sole attack; he subsequently became a martyr to this disease in undeveloped form, the arthritic poison manifesting its influence in him in every part of the body, whilst the signs of the disease as affecting the head, the localization of the pain at the vertex, and at the brow, orenerallv at the rkrht side, the tiro, auriu/u. or singing in the ears, with occasionally deep heavy bourdottnemens^ vertigo, or giddin heaviness of the head, with impairment of memory, and a not infrequent inability for mental application, are all sisms indicative of the Booty diathesis, from which, he is scarcely ever free, except when the disease fixes itself for a short time in one or more of the smaller joints, the outposts of the body,—when he enjoys a remarkable immunity from the pains and penalties to which he is at other times subject. When we set about collecting phenomena or facts in regard to the living body, and especially when we have collected a large number—for. however