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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    This first state of nature you now must pursue, “For medical aid, it is plain, will not do; “Use manual labor, walk many a mile, “Or pester’d you’ll be,—with gout, cholic, and bile.” For nature alone by brisk exercise thrives, A new lease it will give the most desperate lives. Scrub tables, clean pewter, and dry-rub your rooms,— He’ll furnish with bees-wax, mops, brushes and brooms: And rather than not set vour blood in a fluster,— I’ll venture to promise,—to each a clean duster. “Indiscriminate action, makes shocking confusion, “But lest you are puzzled to find an allusion; “Like the sun ’fore the moon, and the moon ’fore the sun, “Chyle, serum, lymph, blood,—shou’d in due order run. — “Beware of pretenders to physical myst’ry, “Nor let ’em phlebotomize, sweat, or e’en blister ye, “Avoid, like a pestilence, ignorant Quacks, “From those in gilt chariots,”—to plain simple hacks. Disciples of Galen, all shut up your shops, No need, have we now, of your balsams or drops; “Dear volatiles, cordials, and bracers,” adieu! Ye all must give place, to a system quite new. “The physical art, above two thousand years, “We find has been practis’d”—he tells it with tears: With tears that so deep, on his paper are sinking, He scarcely can scribble,—for winking, and blinking: •{i07t