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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![[ ] {ome gouty habits, fo violent as to require bleeding, and an antiphlogiftic regimen, to a certain degree, for a few days. Having thus difcuffed the propriety and impropriety of bleeding in gouty habits, we next jiroceed to conlider the efFed:s of vomiting and purging, as evacuants of gouty matter : and as this is of the utmoft importance, it deferves a complete difcuf- iion; for which reafon I will copy, at full length, what Sydenham and Cheyne have fald on the Cabjeft, and then add my own obfervations. Vomits and Purges improper, With refpedt to vomiting and purg- *' ing, fays Sydenham, it fhould be noted, that as it is a fixt law of nature, *' and interwoven with the effence of this *' difeafe, that a part of the morbific mat- *' ter thereof ought always to be tranflated *' to the joints, emetics and cathartics will only invite the whole matter back into *' the blood, which was thrown by nature ** upon the extremities; and hence what *' ought to be thrown upon the joints, *' hurries perhaps to Tome of the vifcera, ** and fo endangers the life of the patient, who was quite fafe before. And](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22304903_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
