Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters and chronic diseases : with cases / by Andrew Scott Myrtle and James Aitken Myrtle.

  • Myrtle, Andrew Scott.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters and chronic diseases : with cases / by Andrew Scott Myrtle and James Aitken Myrtle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    women have become martyrs to it because they have been subjected to bitter trials, sorrow, anxiety, and worry, with physical exhaustion ; any- thing which depresses the vital powers may prove the exciting cause of gout, whether one is predis- posed to it or not. Dr. Clifford Allbutt, in an address to the Medical Chirurgical Society of the West Riding, spoke to the fact that gout was frequently found to exist as a neurosis. Some years ago I met with a case which exemplified this in a remarkable way. During the Indian Mutiny, in 1857, a powerful, smart young officer was chosen to perform a most difficult, dangerous, and arduous duty. He was given important despatches, and had to carry them 70 miles, through a district infested by rebels; he had to accomplish his journey in one day and return with the answer the next. This he did, but on his reaching head quarters, he was so prostrate he had to be lifted from his horse and carried to his bed; next morning lie was removed to the hospital, and shortly after was attacked with acute gout in both great toes, ankles, and thumbs. No member of his family was ever known to have suffered from any form of gout, and he has never been very long free from it since. I have several times seen children, weakened by acute illnesses, show all the signs of acute, gout during the early