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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    [ ] pocky Foulneffes ; all the Ringworms> Itches ■> Scrub add's, Leprofies, Elephantiafes, and even the Kings Evil, or $ crop hula it felf, in thefe our northern Climates, owe their Being. And to which of thefe two in particular, eachfingle Cafes owes its Origin, may be always deter¬ min’d by its Facility, or Stubbornnefs of ad¬ mitting a Cure : For if any of them recurs, after all poffible Methods of Cure, even a Sa¬ livation it felf, we may readily conclude it of the fcorbutic Kind, and that therefore nothing will keep it within Bounds, but a low Diet, and cool Applications. If it yields, and is perfectly cur’d, thenmuftit have been of the pocky Kind initsfirft Principle, tho’ the malignant Taint may have been contracted fo many Genera¬ tions before, that there is no gueffing whofe the original Sin was. Befides; that there are more Ways than one of receiving this In fetati¬ on, To conclude, I have always obferv’d, that as the adtivemercurial Medicines, reliev’d, and at laft perfectly cur’d the latter: So they no lefs certainly enrag’d, and exafperated the former Kind of Evil, as they do in the origi¬ nal Diftempers, from which they refpeCtive- ly fpring; and that nothing fucceeded fo well in the fcorbutic Kind, as Affes Milk, fweet- ning Powders ( Cinnabar, Native, or of An¬ timony, crude Antimony in powder, JEthiops Mineralsj Sect) gentle Vomits, a cool Diet, mineral Waters (Bath, Holt^ and BriftolJ and fuch other eafy Methods, as preferv’d