The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover.

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1771
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *7 ] One Mr. Owen, a Pembrokefdre Gen¬ tleman, came to give me Thanks for the Be¬ nefit he had received from reading my Book; I afk’d him what that was ? He told me he had had the Gout for one and fifty Years ; that his Father and Mother, Grandfather and •i. x i Grandmother all dy d of it; that he had it in both Feet in the ninth Year of his Age, which confined him for a confiderable time; that the middle Finger, I take itf on his left Hand, had been a flraitFinger fourteen Years, and you fee now, Sir, I move it as I do my other Fingers; for twenty Years pafl he had not flood upon his Legs, and if I pleas’d, I might go to Janeway s Coffee-Houfe, near the Royal Exchange, and there afk if they ever faw him without a Pair of Crutches be¬ fore ? Accordingly I went thither, and they told me they never faw him before without Crutches; all this was perform’d by the ufe of Quickfilver; he then told me he had enter’d upon the ninth Pound, and that he walk’d every Morning to IJlington, drank two or three Glaffes of Water, and then return’d; that he could walk feven Miles with as much Pleafure as any Man living, his Legs and Joints was as free from Nodes, as any C , young
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