Some observations on the origin and progress of the atrabilious temperament and gout. Chap. IV. containing the regular, cardinal fit / by William Grant.
- William Grant
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations on the origin and progress of the atrabilious temperament and gout. Chap. IV. containing the regular, cardinal fit / by William Grant. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[ iQ'h] of which, I fhall firft take notice of fuch *' things as are to be omitted. '* Now in this difeafe, if regard be had to the humours, and the indigeftion oc- *' cafioning them, it fhould feem, at firft view, that the curative indications fhould ** principally tend, ift, to evacuate hu- mours already generate'd ; and, sdly, to ** ftrengthen the conftitution, or digeftive *' powers, fo as to prevent the accumula- *' tion of other humours ; thefe being the *' ufual intentions to be anfwered in moft *' other humoural difeafes. But neverthelefs, in the gout, nature feems to have the prerogative to expel *' the peccant matter according to its own *' method, and throw it off partly upon ** the joints, there to be carried off by in- *' fenfible perfpiration. Now there are '* only three ways propofed of expelling ** the morbific matter of the gout; namely, *' I ft, bleeding; 2dly, purging; and sdly, ** fweating; but none of thefe will ever anfwer the end. Bleeding improper, Though bleeding bids fair for evacu- ** ating the humours immediately to be tranflated, as well as thofe already fixed in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22304903_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
