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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    laid down two cPro]>ofitions, (which will be found the Principles of my Reafoning through this Difcourfe) I proceed to the Qb«* fervations themfelves. II. Troy. i. Of two Men having all other Ciremittances alike, as near as may be ; of the fame Parents ; born healthy; of the fame Stature, Complexion, Diet, Air, Exercife, &c. It feems to me impoffible to affign afo- lid Reafon, why the one fhould be afflifted with the Gout, the other be abfolutely free from it, but this, That the * fmalleft Veffels of the gouty Perfon mutt be in their natural f Conformation narrower and more || ftiff, than thofe of the other, who is free from the Goutj in refpefl of their common Stature and Size. For thereby the crude and grofs Hu¬ mors, which are confin’d, or pafs with Pain, in the gouty Perfon will eafily flee off by Per- fpiration, and the other Drains of the Body^ in the Perfon free from the Gout, III. Scholium. This Troyojition is evident from hence, That the Gout feldom feizes on People till towards the Beginning of the Decline of Life, when the Solids having at¬ tained their utmoft cDimenJionsJ and being ftretch’d out to the full Length they have to * Capllaries0 | Maks. \\ ‘Tenfe, reaefn.