Strictures on the gout: with practical advice to the gouty people of Great Britain / [Samuel Wood].

  • Wood, Samuel
Date:
1775
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Credit: Strictures on the gout: with practical advice to the gouty people of Great Britain / [Samuel Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. III. The great Humanity and Merit of fome late Authors who have given their Opinion and Advice to Mankind in fo clear and full a Manner as to be underftood by the Attentive of very moderate Capacity. Tj^ROM the great number of authors on this more than on anv other difeafe, it feems that it has claimed the particular attention of the faculty: from whence fhould this arife? what fhould excite fo extraordinary an application to this difeafe, unlei's it be the certain unhappy Hate of the miferable arthritic?* In moft other difeafes the attacks are but feldom, and the crifis fudden; this pall, the patient foon reco¬ vers his former llrength, and feels little, if any, inconvenience from it after, and perhaps does not experience more than two or three attacks during life: but the arthritic has ever been the unhappy vidlim to perpetual relapfe, dread and decrepitude ^ from him the hope of perfedl re¬ covery is cut off by the objedls daily before his eyes : if he is wealthy, he is excluded from the fuperior enjoyments of life, which ample pof- felfions would otherwife enable him to obtain *, if in middling circumllances, he is difabled from improving them or enjoying the comforts of life in that llation, if not, by being rendered inadtive, reduced to neceffity; and if poor, moil certain mifery and diftrels mud be his lot. Life is imbittered in everv llation ; for what j * t * ——The fleeplefs Gout here counts the crowing cocks; .And wolf now gnaws him—now a ferpen tilings. Thomson. happinefs
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