The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
- Thomas Sydenham
- Date:
- M.DCC.XVII
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Credit: The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![t ] f£ TERES T : Wu the Tear 1675, to the Year 1680. — 573 account, at leaft, ic is well with Gouty People; for their Riches, which inticd them to Lüxury, whereby the Dif- - 'eafe was bred, can provide theiti a Coach, which. kind of Exercife they may dfe when they cannot the other. — But it is to be obferv'd, that it is beft to ule Exercife iri a good Air, $i£. in theCoüntry, and not in a City, wheré : the Air is fill'd with Vapours, exhaling trom tbe Shops of yarious Artificers, and thicken'd by the cloíenefs of the Buildings, as it is here in London, which is geherally thought to be the rioft fpacious City in the whole World; But ‘how great the Difference is betwixt the Exercifes in the Country, and Exercifes in Town, any orie that has the Gout, will foon find. = -. Pion wear tied BESTE . As td Venery, he that is Old and Goüty, (being how deftitute of à Stock of Spirits, whereby the Concoctions ought to be promoted, and by confequence, his Joynts, and the neighbouring Parts to them, too much weakned and loofeted; without this adventitious Deitriétion) is equally às improvident, in my Opinion, if he indulge. himfelt in thefe Allurements, 2s he; that having undet- taken a Journey, fhould coriftime al his Provifions, before ~ he fets out ; for, befides the Mifchiet he brings on himfelf;- by not reftraining the impotent Defires of feeble Age, he deprives himfelf of che great Privilege of enjoying that Jubilee, which is referv’d, as the great and. fpecial Favour of Natute; for old Men only; whereby, in the laft Seene of their Lives, they are at length emancipated from the Émpetuofities of Luft ; which, like a ravenotis Beaít, wor- tied them all the Time of their Youth, Night and Day: For the full Satisfa@tion of thefe Appetites can no way com- penfate for that long Train of Miferies, that either accom- pany, or follow it: And fo much for the Regrmer. n But tho’ Rules of this kind, refpe&ting. Diet, ahd the other Regimes, it they are carefully obferv'd by thofe that are fubjeét to the Gout, thay preferve them from violent Fits of it, and may reftore that Strength to the Blood and folid Parts, whereby they may be treed from the many - Miferies, on which Account this Difeate exceeds human Patience, and at length becomes mortal; yet, after fome Intervals, eípecially at the latter end of Winter, they wi be fometime feizd with the Gout: For tho’ in Summer- time, when the Tone and Vigour of the Blood is excited; and preferv'd in its State by the Heat of the Sun, and there Bb q° | is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30534021_0391.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
