An account of the discovery and operation of a new medicine for gout / [A. Welles].

  • Welles, A.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An account of the discovery and operation of a new medicine for gout / [A. Welles]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “w ~n ” “ 17] thought reputable and desirable: others, on the contrary, ~have been reckoned scandalous and dreadful; not from any circumstances belonging to the distempers themselves, or to the manner in which they are contracted, but from some preju- dice or fancy not easily to be accounted for. Epi- lepsies seem to have been held in particular abomi- nation by the ancient Romans; and ruptures, both with them and with the moderns, have been attended + with as unmerited a shame. Some maladies have been esteemed honourable, because they have ac- cidentally attacked the great, or because they usu- ally belong tothe wealthy, who live in plenty and . ease. We have ali heard of the courtiers who mimicked the wry neck of Alexander the Great ; and when Lewis XIV. happened to have a fistula, the French surgeons. of that time complained of their being incessantly teased by people, who pre- tended, whatever their complaints were, that they procecded from a fistula; and if there had been in France a mineral water, reputed capable of giving it them, they would perhaps have flocked thither as eagerly as Englishmen resort to Bath in order to get the gout, For this seems to be the favourite disease of the present age in England; wished for by those who have it not, and boasted of by those who fancy they have it, though very sin- tyranny. Hence, by a peculiar fate, more pains seem to be taken at present to breed or produce the gout, than to find outits remedy. For,.so much respect hath been shown to this distemper, that all the other ails, except pain, which the real or sup-
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