Cure for the Rheumiittfm and Gout. 31^ 



t'ffe^ls ; and a third, after the fame interval, made a com- 

 plete cure. C. Sedillot fays he repeated this experiment 

 afterwards on a great many perfons, and that it always fuc- 

 cecded. He recommended it, therefore, to the notice of 

 medical men in the Tranfa6lions of the Medical Society of 

 Paris *. 



C. Martin, phyfician to the hofpital of Narbonne, and 

 formerly phyfician to the army of the Eaftern Pyrenees, ha» 

 lately confirmed, in a memoir read before the Medical So- 

 ciety t, the properties afcribed by C. Sedillot jun. to acetous 

 ether. He employed it alfo, with friiSlion, in feveral cafes of 

 people tormented with the rheumatifm, fciatica, and gout. 

 Among thefe cafes, he quotes one of a man fifty-five years 

 of age, who had been long fubjecl to rheumatic pains 

 which had no fixed feat ; and who, having been attacked 

 with a violent iciatica from the hip to the extremity of the 

 foot, could obtain only very flight and momentary relief 

 from all the other remedies, both internal and external, 

 which were adminiftered to him. Half an ounce of acetous 

 ether was applied in fri6lion, every twelve hours, over the 

 whole of the part affefted ; and after each fri6lion he kept 

 himfelf warm in bed. After the third fritSlion he found re- 

 lief; and at the fixth he was fo well cured that he went next 

 day to his country-feat, a league diftant from the city, al- 

 though three days before he had not been able to drag himfelf 

 from one end of his chamber to the other without experi- 

 encing the moft excruciating pain. Succefsful cafes of this 

 kind, communicated to the Society of Medicine at Paris by 

 a regular practitioner, deferve the attention of medical men, 

 who ought to try the remedy in order to afcertain whether 

 Its efficacy be fuch as is here Itatcd. 



C. Sedillot confidcrs acetous; ether alfo as a fodative much 

 fpeedicr and gentler in its etTe<St than opium : it does not 

 tend, be fays, like the latter, to impede the a<Slion of the 

 organs. The following is the relult of an experiment which 

 he made with it on himfelf: — Six drops on a lump of fugar 



■ No. X. Meirulor, an. 5. 



t See La Recucil dc la Socletc de Medic! i:c. Vol. VIII, No. 48, Ger- 

 (Tiiu4l> an. 8. 



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