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

  • William Cadogan
Date:
1925
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    “Let her court in her turn,” and you humor the jest, (Those say that have try’d, it gives passion a zest) “Our sensations are limited; if we go further “Than Nature ordains, upon pain we must border:” That truth he then tells, is what common sense shews “If you’ll venture to look beyond ken of your nose.” “Some men of fine taste, and experience high, “May chance read his book, and its matter decry, “They like not to hear disagreeable truth “Which, in vain, was enforc’d in the days of their youth: “But can he no recipe find to restore,” The bloom of eighteen at years fifty and four? “No kettle Medean to boil them anew,” No herbs, aromatic, together to glew. “Sensation and vigor, to rags quite exhausted;” If not, for an ignorant fool he is posted.— To which, he immediately gives ’em their fiat,— “In ease now you bask, in enjoyment you riot:” You feed on rich sauces, you drink of strong wine, In the morn go to bed, and at evening you dine; Thus the order of nature is set topsy-turvy, And hence you contract palsy, jaundice, and scurvy: From causes like those, such effects will needs spring, And a cobier that’s hale,—is above a sick king: No cure for such ills, he’ll pronounce with a groan— Full as soon cou’d he find the philosophers stone. What on earth are ye doing say llHorton and Birch? You’re helping the citizens, fast, to a crutch— As a punishment due to your crime, pray rely on, Your being both chain’d to a wheel like Ixion: 11 Puff shop in Cornhill. •full*