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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    42/382 (page 20)
    lodgerh, eh]0ysi)ut little warmth, For the- attenliatirig^ ef this grofs damp, gnd expelling dt 'through the fniall pores of‘that’membrane-.^' ; ';'Qu. f pfa]^, .Sir,^det;me know what is the'chier that hath induced you to make Damps the. only caufe of; the G’out^?' '[ \Ah^._ This remedy^ ^which I here'ofier; ‘ks'‘‘t}iat which Tuddenly cures,this‘difeafe; Forf'dfTt-be true, that ihe-MediriM^ deoliiyes- the'-'iDif e^fe^ as Phyfipans affirm with their %\2.^ttlrIiWh€yates;' J-muffi then con¬ clude, that ho hiimors, but only a SpF dtuous things is the^ caiife of-this Difeafe.; Second^, oblerV'ing- the fud- den;. m.otion' ,bf the gouty: matter, fometimeS diflodging in' a^ very ffiort time-from one .limb to another,r'from the hand' to - the. foot, from one- foot to the other, &ir. flying as ’twere with fwifr wdiigsTtom above to beneath, and back again ; I And 'my felf oblh ged'to judg, that- thefe are not Hu-^ mors, but fome Spirituous matter able to do.fuch things. CHAH