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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    The phenomena already stated, and so strongly marked in-medicinal effect, could not fail to open a new ficld of ideas. If philanthropy may be allowed ever to warm the human breast, the benevolent might here feel a glow: and the fire could hardly be elicited from a source more pure. Here is a plant that not only the pharmacologist but popular practice has - been ignorant of ; yet powerful to alleviate one of the most excruciating ‘‘ shocks that flesh is heir to.” The writer’s intention is not to heighten the imagination, but to state facts. He is too weil convinced of his strength to attempt a coup de main. His wish is to ** several days. A neighbour coming to see me, told me he *¢ had a bottle of the medicine, which he immediately gave «Cme. At Sundries I took three wine-glasses the same after- — *¢ noon, fered with double that quantity of water, after which — ‘¢T had a comfortable night’s repose; repeated the same the ‘* next afternoon, and in the morning was perfectly easy, and *¢ have continued so ever since. «¢ ] have omitted to answer your letter till this time, to see «« if T should have a relapse; but I have not. ‘¢ Tam, Sir, your humble servant, ‘“* Rost. BROWN.” This new proof of its efficacy on Mr. Brown, and his con- tinued faith in the remedy, was unknown to the writer until some time inthe September following : and it may be well sup- posed that it did not damp his ardour in the pursuit of what he had before thought a duty to mankind.
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