An essay of the true nature and due method of treating the gout. Written for the use of Richard Tennison, Esq., together with an account of the nature and quality of the Bath waters, the manner of using them, and the diseases in which they are proper: as also, of the nature and cure of most chronical distempers, not published before / [George Cheyne].

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1724
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Credit: An essay of the true nature and due method of treating the gout. Written for the use of Richard Tennison, Esq., together with an account of the nature and quality of the Bath waters, the manner of using them, and the diseases in which they are proper: as also, of the nature and cure of most chronical distempers, not published before / [George Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ iii ] S i LVX. There remains but one Diftin£tion more of the Gout, and one which has not hi¬ therto been muchconfidefd: For as the Cho¬ lic or Aflhma is, fo the Gout may be, divided into the Humorous and Nervous ; tho5 this Dillinftion depends more upon the Complex¬ ion of the Patient, than the abftra&ed Na¬ ture of the Diftemper. The Humorous Gout happens only to People of grolfer Habits, more robuft Conftitutions, and more ftiff and fpringy Fibres, and is the Gout which X have been hitherto treating. All X can further add to what has been faid, is, that under the Fit white Wines are more eligible than red ; be- caufe thofe part more readily with their Spi¬ rits, and are lefs aftringent than thefe. And for the fame Reafon in the Intervals, the red is preferable to the white: Tho’ neither of them, in either Cafe, be ufeful or neceilary, but becaufe Cuftom or Habit, which it is not fafe to alter fuddenly, has made them fo. For in all the Ottoman Empire, where little Flefli Meat, and no Wine is ufed ; and in Spain, where they ufe them very moderately ; and among the wild Mountaineers in the northern Countries; and the lower Rank of the People in every Country, where they can procure nei¬ ther, there is little or no Gout. Rubbing the Part affefted with afoft Hand, or warm Nap¬ kin, as ftrongly as the Patient can bear it, is the ready way to make the Humour perfpire in