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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    [ '3l ] LXXVI. I have been inform’d, with great Concern, of fome fmall Inconveniences that have happened in the Ufage and Application of fome of the Rules, and Remedies advis’d for the Gout, in theftrft Edition of thisTrea- tife. I did endeavour to lay down the Ad¬ vices there given, with all the Flainnefs and Precifion I could: But I begin now to be fen- fible, there is fome Danger in the Application of the moft innocent Remedies, without the Direction of a proper Perfon, experienc’d in the Nature of Medicines, acquainted with the Difference of theConftitutions, and skill’d in the Hiftory of Difeafes. If one afflicted with a nervous Gout fhould ufe Sulphur for a Remedy, unlefs it be in a very fmall ‘\Dofe, or taken very feldom, he can never fucceed, becaufe Sulphur purges, and relaxes the Fi¬ bres of the alimentary Paifages, which will bring on a Difeafe, far more deplorable than the Gout, and to which the Gout it felf brings its Subjects on its laft and fatal Stages only: Whereas to cure a nervous Gout, Medicines are indicated, which gently evacuate, and re- ftringe at the fame time, fuch as Rhubarb ^ Aloes, and the like, or neglecting the Gout, the nervous Syftem is to be ftrengthned and* wound up hr ft by Crocus Mart is Aftringens the Barkj, Orange-peel, and fuch other Re¬ medies, as are directed above, in nervous Cafes, whereby the Strength being recover’d