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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    [ i8x ] fluids; therefore, medicines cannot be expected to take much effect upon them. If the growth, however, be entirely put a flop to, it is probable that a gradual diminution of them will take place from abforption. Of the regulations that have been laid down, all are not equally adapted to every conftitution : the application, therefore, to particular cafes, mufl be made under the diredtion of any medical advifer to whol'e care a patient has been ufed to fub- mit himfelf. To give tone to the fto- mach is one of the leading intentions in almoft every thing that has been preferib- ed. When the tendency to diforder is conftitutional, it cannot be eradicated, ?.nd in fuch cafes, the regulations mull be