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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    r m ] _ it) Medicines, which when arrived there, may ftraiten, JTtffen, or wind up thefe relaxed Nerves, which indicates the Barkj Orange- Beelj toafted Rhubarb„ Acornsthe Vitriolum, and the Crocus Martis, and whatever elle is endow’d with a cool bitter Aftringency, with the leaft Acidity. From this Account we may obferve, why Purging fucceeds fo ill in ner¬ vous Cafes. For befides, that it carries off the Nourifhment (theflow Digeftion in thefe Cafes makes it, that greater crude Quantities are carried off by a purge in them, than in o- thers) it counter-afts the very Intention in the Cure, viz. the contrasting or winding up the relax’d Fibres of the Solids, which it is impoffible ever to execute, but by beginning at the Fibres of the Stomach and Guts, as we obferve in the Bark, which never fucceeds when it purges : At lead neither fo foon, nor fo certainly ; (and therefore I always add a few Drops of Laudanumioit in weak Nerves) which from this Beginning, by continuance, propagates it felf to the laft Extremities, like the twilling of a Rope, where a Twine at the moveable Extremity propagates it felf by Degrees, to the fix’d End, be their DF fiance ever fo great. So that there is no fuc- ceeding in nervous Cafes, without firft ren- dring the Fibres of the Stomach and Guts tight, /. e. the Body firm, if not coftive. And poffibly, it may be from this Quality (Aft ringency without Acidity) with its being more