A Treatise on the Nature and Cure of Gout and Rheumatism, Including General Considerations on Morbid States of the Digestive Organs; Some Remarks on Regimen; and Practical Observations on Gravel

Among the very few medical authors who, like the Bard of the North or the Exile of the South, have realized the fable of Mid as, and converted paper into gold by the magic touch of their pens, Dr. Scudamore may, we think, be numbered. We do not speak of the direct transmutation, as it would be understood in Pater-Noster Rofr by the adepts in the trade. Far from it! Small indeed is the return of "shining ore," from those great granaries of literature, even although second and third editions roll majestically into them?-facilis descensus averni!?many an author, reputedly successful, could add with strict truth,?