A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same causes. What those causes are, and a rational and natural method of cure proposed : addressed to all invalids / by William Cadogan.

  • William Cadogan
Date:
1772
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Credit: A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same causes. What those causes are, and a rational and natural method of cure proposed : addressed to all invalids / by William Cadogan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^ - [ i8 ] life muft produce many, and that it is impoflible to grow old without ficknefs of fome kind or other. There is certainly no foundation in nature for any of thefe opinions, nor is there any real elTential difference of conflitution, but of ftrong or weak, and this is produced more by habit than nature. The ftrong by bad habits will become weaker, and by good, the weak Wronger. But the mofl delicate frames may be as healthy as the flrongeff,- for the fame reafon that a fparrow may be as healthy as an elephant. There is no dlfeafe neceffarily peculiar to any time of life, however the changes into thcj dif¬ ferent ftages of it may affedt the valetu¬ dinary. And it is poflible for men to live to great age without any difeafe at all, for many have lived to the age of an hun« dred with uninterrupted health. Not from the natural defedls of our conftitutions therefore, but the abufe of them, proceed all our chronic difeafes. That is, from Indolence, Intemperance, or vexation. Let
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