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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    “And tho’ his opinion is, contradicente,” To those of the faculty, nineteen in twenty: “He still will maintain, that from father to son, “Like estate that’s entail’d, it by no means doth run: “Of cure, is not void—to no period is stated, “That a cook maid as soon, (when she’s thoroughly heated) “Might talk with Sir Isaac on subject of fire,” And swear that when broiling, folks do not perspire, As, physical tribe, dare to enter a caveat, Against its proceeding from causes he’d have it. “’Tis next to impossible, oft we are told, “Without pain or sickness, alas! to grow old; “The strong, by bad habits, grow weaker we know, “And by good ones the weak will grow stronger also:” But wou’d ye to fam’d Epictetus adhere, “Whose philosophy teaches to bear and forbear, “You’d find in good health, at a hundred and twenty” Maids, widows, and batchelors—Deo Javente. Of the days of good Adam, our grandsire, he’d sing, Who fed on the herb, and who drank from the spring; . ’Till Eve,—wicked jade!—for an apple so rare, Entail’d on posterity ages of care: Which apple, they say, was in semblance so fine, It cou’d be no other I guess—than a Pine.— Excuse the digression—to palliate I strove, The sin of first parents, since most of ye love, To partake of this fruit,—and if tempted by Eve,— Not a man of ye all,—but wou’d Paradise leave. °{io6}°