Two treatises, the one medical, of the gout, and its nature more narrowly search'd into than hitherto; together with a new way of discharging the same / ... By Herman Busschof Senior ... The other partly chirurgical, partly medical; containing some observations and practices relating both to some extraordinary cases of women in travel; and to some other uncommon cases of diseases in both sexes. By Henry van Roonhuyse ... Englished out of Dutch. By a careful hand.

  • Hermann Buschoff
Date:
1676
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Credit: Two treatises, the one medical, of the gout, and its nature more narrowly search'd into than hitherto; together with a new way of discharging the same / ... By Herman Busschof Senior ... The other partly chirurgical, partly medical; containing some observations and practices relating both to some extraordinary cases of women in travel; and to some other uncommon cases of diseases in both sexes. By Henry van Roonhuyse ... Englished out of Dutch. By a careful hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £)fr60(i5£>mx.' s you are in the right way of arriving ro a happy cure oi this Malady. ■ Do you underhand by the name of Gout, all pain in the Limbs ? jin. No ,* but that pain which in lliarpnefs and hercenefs exceeds all other, and that which I mean to de- fcribe. To let pafs the name of the Gout, pray give me a full and plain deicription of the Difeafe it felt ^ An. The Gout is a preternatural, inward, deep-lurking, and ior the moft part invifible little fvvelling within in the ]?erioftium, that is, the membrane that enwraps all Bories ; caufed from a dry and cold ill-natured damp or vapor, which out of the arteries,by the expelling vertue of the heart, is driven out into the place that is between the bone and the ferioflium, for the moft part into fuch Limbs of the Body as are about the Joints; in which this vapor being and ' remaining impacted and inclofed, and diftending tliat moft fenftble mem¬ brane, produces thofe violent and in- B i tolerable /