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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    [ II] during the Winter Seafon \ but whofe Juices are ratified and expanded, the inward Mo¬ tion of the Parts of their Fluids upon one ano¬ ther, increafed and ftrengthened, their Circu¬ lation promoted and enlarged, their Terfpira- tions quickned and augmented, and their Spi¬ rits chear’d and enliven’d, by the kindly In¬ fluences of this material Deity. And during his Abfence, the quite contrary happens to them in all thefe Inftances. They are truly natural Thermometers, and their Juices rati¬ fy, or condenfe. Their Terfpirations rife, or fall, as this external Source of Life and Acti¬ vity influences them. It is paft all Manner of Doubt, that all acquired chronical Diftempers, would in time, terminate of themfelves, have their Periods of remitting and enraging, from the natural Drains of the Body, the Actions of the Solids, and the internal Motion of the Fluids, if new Fuel were not fupply’d them from Time to Time. Xi Coroll. 3. Hence we may difeover the Reafon of the common Obfervation, that gou¬ ty Perfons are People of good natural Parts, large Feeders, and long-liv’d : Becaufe the Fibres of the fmalleft Veffels, being more ftiff and fpringy than ordinary, the Circulation is brisker,more full and free; whereby the^na- * J’hat is Eatings Digejling, and Evacuating, &c. C 2 tural