An answer to the letter addressed by Francis Riollay, physician of Newbury, to Dr. Hardy, on the hints given concerning the origin of the gout, in his publication on the colic of Devon : in which the several objections made by Dr. Riollay are considered, and the probability that the gout originates from the action of mineral substances, especially those conveyed into the human system by the medium of adulterated wines, is more fully insisted on / by James Hardy.

Hardy, James, -1805

Date:: 1780

Credit: An answer to the letter addressed by Francis Riollay, physician of Newbury, to Dr. Hardy, on the hints given concerning the origin of the gout, in his publication on the colic of Devon : in which the several objections made by Dr. Riollay are considered, and the probability that the gout originates from the action of mineral substances, especially those conveyed into the human system by the medium of adulterated wines, is more fully insisted on / by James Hardy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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[ ] luxury: there are many, of opulent families, now living, who might join in a remark, fimilar to that made by Lucullus, and C. Sentius *, on the introdudion of Greek wines into Italy, and fay, that when they were young, they rarely faw wine brought out at their father's tables, except on a moft particular occafion, or when ufed as a me- dicine.—How univerfally different from the fimplicity and frugality of former times, the prefent %le of living is, needs not to be infifted on.. The increafe and prevalence of any parti- cular difeafe, muft have fome general caufe, adequate to the effefts produced, let it be ever fo remote or obfcure j and I fubmit, with great deference, how far thefe hints convey any information on the fubjea:, * Cau PJinii. lib. xiv. cap. 14^ C z

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