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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    [76] ons, but produced by the dally accumu¬ lations of indigefted, unfubdued acrimo¬ ny and fuperfliiity, which, when they a- bound to a. certain degree, muft end ei¬ ther in a fir of the gout, or fome other difeafe, according to the confiitution, as long as any vigor is left in the body ; for nature will for ever free or endeavour to free irfelf, and purge the blood of its impurities by gout, by fever, by pain of one kind or other, that takes off the ap¬ petite, and for a time giv^es refpite, and prevents the pouring in of more and more enemies to difturb its operations, and make it ineffeduak Thus young people, af¬ ter a fit of gout is happily and well gone off, are as free from it, as if they had never had it; and if they would take warning and be careful not to breed it a- gain, moft certainly would for ever re¬ main free. How abfurd therefore, how rediculoufly ignorant mud be every at¬ tempt to cure the gout in futuro by me¬ dicine, before it be yet formed, before it has any exiftence ! Can fuch a medicine give fupernatural firength, and enable an feld man, living in indolence, to diged and
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