A treatise on the gout and rheumatism. Wherein a method is laid down of relieving ... those excruciating distempers / By R. James.

  • Robert James
Date:
1745
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Credit: A treatise on the gout and rheumatism. Wherein a method is laid down of relieving ... those excruciating distempers / By R. James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Phyficians were permitted to ufe it in their Practice. This unaccountable Prejudice of Phyficians againft any Novelty, however rational or well attefted, probably gave the Hint to the ce¬ lebrated Moliere, when he introduced a ri¬ diculous Phyfician in one of his Comedies, of reprefenting him as applauding himfelf for having fufiained a Thefts againft the modem Difcovery of the Circulation of the Blood* It is our peculiar Happinefs to live in an Age of more Candour, wherein Phyficians are generally too well bred to contradict by way of Infult, and too rational to deny the Evidence of their Senfes. And, if this fhould not happen to be the Cafe, Mankind are, in our Days, for the moil Part inclined to form Judgments for themfelves, and to fufpeCt un¬ reasonable Oppofition to proceed either from Stupidity or Wickednefs. This Difpofition in the Gentlemen of the faculty, and of Mankind in general, has en¬ couraged me to lay before the Public what I have read, what I have heard, and what I know from my own Experience, relative to a particular Method of Treating the leaft refiftible of all Diftempers, the Gout. Nor is this the only Motive $ for I efteem it inde- B z fpenfibly
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