William Cadogan [His essay on gout] / by John Ruhräh.

  • William Cadogan
Date:
1925
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Credit: William Cadogan [His essay on gout] / by John Ruhräh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The author, to Styx, in a sulphurous flame, They’d waft, and extirpate the breed and the name: But, lest the poor wight, shou’d oblivion lie snug in, Without further preface—’tis Willy Cadogan. Regardless of profit, not studious to please, Tho’ deck’d in long wig, and enrich’d with degrees, He, in two-fold capacity, there does appear, And hopes (—for our health’s sake), we’d lend him an ear: As doctor, and cook,—no disgrace to the college, For troth, he lay’s open a wide field of knowledge. Fie tells us, at once, in a manner laconic, “That all the diseases the learned term chronic, “From intemp’rance, vexation, and indolence claim, “Their rise, and their first introduction to fame.” But declin’d in his practice, this wonderful scapin Treats on cul’nary arts, and cries down Aisculapian. “The gout, a disease now so common is grown, “There scarce lives a man, but its twinges has known; “Or, say he shou’d not, full as well can explain, “Its cause, and its several stages of pain:” Unless, to the stomach, it chance to get clear in, And then, he’ll pronounce you,—as dead as a herring. “To define what it is, he there does not mean, “But what it is not, as may plainly be seen: •{105}-