A treatise upon gravel and upon gout : in which the sources of each are investigated, and effectual means of preventing, or removing these diseases recommended.

Date:
1787
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Credit: A treatise upon gravel and upon gout : in which the sources of each are investigated, and effectual means of preventing, or removing these diseases recommended. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    t '75 ] when no fuch impediments are in the way, their operation, being chemical, may be confidered as more certain than that of medicines in general. The ut- moft attention, however, to every method of preventing a redundancy of acid will be neceflary. If fo great an obje£I as the Iblution of a ftone be held in view, acids, acefcent vegetables, and every kind of fermented liquor muff be abftained from with the greateft ffridlnefs. At the fame time, as much exercife as the patient’s fituation will admit of fhould be employ- ed. By caufing an agitation in the urine, it will tend to promote the folution ; whereas, if the whole be at red, the part in contadl with the furface of the ftone will foon be faturated, and the remainder kept at a diftance. Con-