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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    make me bud a little with ye trees, I was resolved to send no cold blooded prosing to Thee, Merry Wag of ten thousand! I am tight in my Limbs, better in my head, and my belly is as big as Ever—I cannot quit Peck and Booze.—What’s Life without sack and sugar! My lips were made to be lick’d, and if the Devil appears to me in the Shape of Turbot and Claret, my crutches are forgot, and I laugh and Eat ... A Dr. Cadogan has written a pamphlet lately upon ye Gout, it is much admired and has certainly It’s merit—I was frightened with it for a Week; but as Sin will outpull repentance when there are passions and palates, I have postponed the Dr.’s Regi¬ men till my wife and I are tete a tete, and so make ye mortification as compleat as her father Confessor would prescribe to her in Lent.” His principal works are on gout and children. The first is entitled “A Disserta¬ tion on the Gout, and all Chronic Diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same causes, what those causes are; and a