A treatise on the regular, irregular, atonic, and flying gout containing many new reflections on its causes, and management ... With the excellent effects of the muriatic acid in the relief of that disorder / By William Rowley.

William Rowley

Date:: 1792

Credit: A treatise on the regular, irregular, atonic, and flying gout containing many new reflections on its causes, and management ... With the excellent effects of the muriatic acid in the relief of that disorder / By William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ xk ] CONTENT,S. ' t \ • THE Introdu(5lion, containing remarks on the' gout, its antiquity, and ancient opinions concerning it—De- lufions of empirics, Src.—The cure by milk diet con- fidered—^conditions neceffary-—feldom to be met with in praftice—Danger of changing diet—The gout why generally Incurable—Remarkable inftances of longe¬ vity—Why the prefent Treatife is publiflied—to in¬ troduce a new remedy—and to give rules for treating the gout under various circumftances and conftitutions. Definition and fymptoms of the regular, irregular, ato¬ nic, and flying gout — — ' -- i Caufes of the gout -- - 7 Proofs that it arifes from a fuperabundance of gluten-and calcareous particles, &c. - — 8 Why have gouty perfons an overabundance of earthy or calcareous'particles in the blood united with gluten ? 17 Cqfiivenefs or a dryjkln how produ6live of gout - 18 Caufes of the, proceeding from deficiency or depravity of bile, from debility In the arterial a6lions, &c. &c. 19 Why the toes are generally firfl; affedied - 30 How the gouty particles afFe6f the nerves - 37 Of the general methods of treating the gout, with ob- fervations the refult of long experience in a variety of cafes, &:c. &c. — — — 40 Of the treatment of the gout during the fit, by the ne=iv invented gout baths — — — . 48 The compofition of the gout baths — -—50 Conjedtures on the manner of the operation of the mu~ riatic acid baths in fits of the gout —— — ^ r I On$