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Artikelname: Steifigkeit der Wirbelsäule und ihre Verkrümmung als besondere Erkrankungsform (pp.425-434).
Artikelbeschreibung:

Bechterew, Wladimir M. v.:

Steifigkeit der Wirbelsäule und ihre Verkrümmung als besondere Erkrankungsform (pp.425-434).

Neurol. Zbl., 12/13. - Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1893, 8°, pp.424-472, Brosch; etwas fleckig.

First German Edition!
German translation of Bechterev's classic paper on ankylosing spondylitis which had originally appeared in Russia, in Vrach, 13 (1892), pp.899-903.
The condition is known as "Bechterev's disease" (spondylarthrosis ankylopietica); it is connected with many neurological symptoms due to involvement of the spinal cord. The great Russian psychoneurologist Bechterew (1857-1927) studied abroad in the laboratories of the most distinguished scientists of the time, including Flechsig, Westpahl, Meynert and Charcot.

Erstbeschreibung der v. Bechterew' Krankheit.
"V. Bechterew beschrieb 1892 nicht die klassische ankylosierende Spondylitis, sondern eine hetrotope Gruppe von Wirbelsäulenaffektionen." Th.Albrecht, Analyse und Katalogisierung der Orthopädischen relevanten Eponyme..., p.66
Garrison & Morton No.4360

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Artikelname: Abhandlung von der Gicht und allen langwierigen Krankheiten ... nebst einem Vorschlag ihrer Heilung. + Falconer, W.: Anmerkungen über Herrn Cadogan Schrift der Gicht und den übrigen Krankheiten.
Artikelbeschreibung:

Cadogan, William:

Abhandlung von der Gicht und allen langwierigen Krankheiten ... nebst einem Vorschlag ihrer Heilung. + Falconer, W.: Anmerkungen über Herrn Cadogan Schrift der Gicht und den übrigen Krankheiten.

Frankfurt u. Leipzig, Christian Gottlieb Hertel, 1722, Kl.8°, (14), 146 pp.; Berlin, Haube und Spener, 1773, 8°, (8), 120 pp., Pappband der Zeit; unbeschnittenes Exemplar.

Not common first German Edition, bound with the first German edition of William Falconer's (1724-1844) "Observations on Dr. Cadogan's Dissertation on the gout and all chronic diseases."

The clyster and other "rather fierce methods of treatment received a temporary setback when Dr. William Cadogan (1711-1799) published his best-selling book, A Dissertation on the Gout and on All Chronic Diseases (1771), which he dedicated "to all invalids." In it, he refuted specific treatðment and, with great originality as was then thought, adðvocated a permanently temperate way of life. He wrote: "How ill can vomiting, bleeding and purging supply the place of temperance; cordials and opium of peace of mind? ... It is the constant course of life which we lead, what we do, or neglect to do habitually that, if right, establishes our health; if wrong, makes us invalids for life." Nevertheless he later relented somewhat and said that: "I think the causes may be very fairly reduced to these three: Indolence, Intemperance and Vexation. . . . It is by their own fault that they are ill. Nonetheless medical treatment can do good." Dr. Samuel Johnson was asked his opinion of this work by Boswell, and thought that: " 'Tis a good book in general, Sir, but a foolish one as to particulars." No doubt this was because for his own gout Johnson preferred and practised drastic treatment which included enormous doses of dr. James powder of antimony, such as were supposed to have killed his friend, Olvier Goldsmith."
Dr. William Cadogan, F.R.S. (1711-1797), qualified originally at Leyden, but later became physician to the Foundling Hospital in London. William Munk described him as being "of pleasing manners and strong good sense, who by his writing did draw much attention to himself, and paved the way to a lucrative business." His Dissertation on the Gout (1771) attracted great attention and went through eleven editions (in two years); whilst his sturdy common sense and advocacy of moderation in all things did much to dispel the mystique which had long surrounded this disease. The great actor, David Garrick, who was a sufferer, wrote of this: "Dr. C. has written a book lately upon ye gout. It is much admired and certainly has its merit-I was frightened with it for a week." Cadogan maintained that the causes of gout were three in number: "Indolence, Intemperance and Vexation. ... So it is by the patient's own fault that he is ill," and although he realised that this was sometimes recognised by enlightened physicians, he declared: "Nonetheless, they are afraid to say so, and this talk seems to have been left to me, and I will perform it most sincerely." He concluded: "Let me say that an active and frugal life is a safe preventative, and may be a cure." Cadogan built himself a pleasant country house near London which is now the Hurlingham Club, home of English polo, to which he retired and died at the age of 86." W.S.C. Copeman, A Short history of the Gout, pp.4,7,16,84-89
"For the treatment of chronic diseases Cadogan advocated Activity, Temperance and Peace of Mind. The prescription of the modem geriatrician!" John Rendle-Short, William Cadogan, Eighteen-Century Physician, Med Hist. 1960 October; 4(4): 288-309.

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Artikelname: Bericht und Unterricht von der Kranckheit des Schmertz-machenden Scharbocks, woher derselbe entstehe und komme, und wie solche Krankheit zu curiren, zum viertenmahl gedruckt...
Artikelbeschreibung:

Drawitz, Johann:

Bericht und Unterricht von der Kranckheit des Schmertz-machenden Scharbocks, woher derselbe entstehe und komme, und wie solche Krankheit zu curiren, zum viertenmahl gedruckt...

Mit einer Vorrede von Johann Michaelis. - Leipzig, Tarnovius, (1704), Kl.8°, Titel in rot u. schwarz, (62), 421, (1) pp., Halbpergamentband

Sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar der seltenen Monographie über Skorbut (Scharbock) des Leipziger Arztes Johannes Drawitz (1604-1653), Mitarbeiter des bekannten Johann Michaelis (1606-1667), der die chemischen Medikamente in Leipzig einführte (vgl. Hirsch/H. IV, p.197).
In dieser sehr frühen Abhandlung zur Ätiologie und Therapie des Vitaminmangels werden die vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen des Skorbuts dargestellt, wie die "Scharbockische reissende Gicht, Kriebel-Krankheit, Scharbosche Lähmung, die Schmerzen und Wehen, so beym Scharbock nicht zwar innerhalb der Gelenke, sondern ausser denselben in unterschiedlichen Gliedmassen menschlichen Leibes, als an Armen und Beinen, sich ereignen und empfindlich machen, über Schmerzen des Haupts, von dem Scharbockischen Zahn-Wehe, dem Seitenstechen, dem Schmerzen und Grimmen des Bauchs, .."

Mit zahlreichen Rezepturen. Am Schluß durch ein alphabetisches Register erschlossen.
Wellcome II, p.486; Jöcher II, p.212

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Artikelname: Die Gicht und ihre Therapie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Diätetik.
Artikelbeschreibung:

Schittenhelm, Alfred & Schmid, J.:

Die Gicht und ihre Therapie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Diätetik.

Slg. Abh. Verd.- Stoffw., 2/7. - Hrsg. v. A.Albu. - 2., erw. Aufl., Halle, C.Marhold Verlagsbhdlg., 1911, 8°, 66 pp., OBrosch.; unbeschnitten.

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Artikelname: Ueber die Natur und Heilung der Gicht von Dr. Carl Scudamore, aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Carl Hesse.
Artikelbeschreibung:

Scudamore, Sir Charles:

Ueber die Natur und Heilung der Gicht von Dr. Carl Scudamore, aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Carl Hesse.

Halle, in der Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1819, 8°, XII, 370 pp., feines Exemplar im Halbledereinband der Zeit, mit ausgiebiger Rückenprägung und Vergoldung.

Rare First German Edition!
"The chief pioneer in this field was Sir Charles Scudamore (1779-1849). He was himself a sufferer with gout, and, stimulated by the work of John Hunter, he studied his patients objectively and analytically, basing deductions on careful observations and experiments. He initiated crude clinical trials, and even did some valid experiments on dogs. Although his outlook remained completely clinical he made use of those ancillary chemical aids which were becoming available to this new generation of scientific physicians. However, as the result of his investigations he thought that "We have no actual proof even of the existence of uric acid in the body . . . or if present there is no apparent cause why it should not be excreted by the kidneys, the glands obviously designed to separate and excrete saline matter." Scudamore came of an old Herefordshire family and was the fourth generation to study medicine. He practiced as an apothecary in London for ten years before graduating M.D. in Glasgow in 1814 with a thesis entitled De Arthritide. His interest in rheumatism was by then well developed, and in 1816 he published A Treatise on the Nature and Cure of the Gout with Some Observations on Rheumatism, the first systematic survey of the subject which he dedicated to Matthew Baillie. It was based on his detailed personal observation of about one hundred patients, and proved such a success that a fourth edition had appeared by 1823.
Scudamore considered that previous writers had classified gout in over-elaborate fashion: "As in medicine it is always dangerous to frame distinctions without a difference." He expressed agreement with Latham that three categories were sufficient, namely acute, chronic, and retrocedent. He was a protagonist of the visceral conception of gout, saying that "the inflammatory process will seldom be confined to the joints, but will affect all tissues which are subservient to the function of the joints"; although he avoided the extreme views regarding retrocedent forms which were held by many contemporaries. Regarding this he said: "Dyspepsia and other visceral derangements which commonly occur in a gouty individual are not necessarily dependent upon the gouty state . . . we cannot boast that our knowledge of the intimate nature of disease is sufficient to authorise such conclusions."
He did not believe that gout was invariably hereditary. In an analysis of 523 of his own patients he could conclude an hereditary disposition in 309. Twenty years later Garrod repeated this analysis and reported that of his hospital patients 50 per cent were of hereditary origin; but among his private patients a convincing family history was produced in no less than 75 per cent. During the last twenty years Talbott has reported this finding in two-thirds of all his patients in Buffalo.
Whilst recognising the importance of heredity, therefore, Scudamore believed that an additional precipitating factor was also necessary: "Such as agonising mental stress, or habits sufficiently intemperate to equal such a condition." He commented dryly of the late Prime Minister that: "The late Mr. Pitt and his father both suffered with the gout at an early period of life. The father was a votary of Bacchus; of the son this could not strictly be said; but he was an ardent student." Of the former he also remarked that "he had his existence embittered by the gout, and died of its effects."
Writing of the age of onset of gout he reported that the first attack had occurred between the ages of twenty-five and forty in forty-four of sixty-four patients. He had personally seen no case occurring prior to puberty, an observation with which Garrod agreed; although Gairdner and Trousseau had each reported its occurrence in nurslings. Scudamore believed that gout could not occur after the age of seventy, which led Garrod to publish the case of his patient, the Bishop of Durham, who developed his first attack at the age of ninety-two. They agreed in their belief that the later the initial onset the milder was the course the disease would be likely to run.
Commenting upon the well-observed fact that the initial attack of gout occurs most frequently in the big toe, he reported that in a series of 516 patients this had been so on 341 occasions.
By 1820 Scudamore had been appointed physician to Prince Leopold, and he was knighted by the King during a visit to Dublin in 1829. It was his habit to spend a "busman's holiday" of some weeks each year at Buxton, where he practised in a consulting capacity. On one occasion he analysed the medicinal waters and published the results as a pamphlet (1830)." W.S.C. Copeman, A short history of the Gout and Rheumatic Diseases, pp.103-105

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