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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    [ ?8 ] the moft piercing, a£Hve, and agreeable Acid in the World; fuch as Spirit of Sulphur, Gas of Sulphury and the like. 4. The fat and oily Parts of Sulphur, like other fat and unffuous Bodies, are the lighteft, the moft coherent, and the moft fpringy of all Bodies. Thefe two laft Qualities are moft manifeft from the artificial Sulphur made of Oyl of Turpentine and Spirit of Vitriol (the ftrongeft Glew, and the moft penetrating Acid) duly diges¬ ted and carefully manag’d, which in all reft peffcs is the fame with natural Sulphur. u No 44 Body denies (fays Tour nfort in his Voyage to the Levant, Pag. 122. Part. I.Englijh Edit.) u that Sulphur is only a fat Subftance, a fix’d by an acid Spirit: The Sulphur which a is artificially made, and the Analyfis of 44 common Sulphur, put this Truth out of all Difpute. For the Sea Water being fat by 46 the Oyl of the Sea Fifti continually corrupt' ing there, and bitter and faltifh from its fa™ u line Rocks, produces in proper Nefts natural a Sulphur. ” And Sir Ijaac Newton fays, in his laft Edition of his Opticks, pag. 959. 44 By a dilfolving flower of Brimftone in Oyl of Tur- u pentine, and diftilling the Solutionit is a found, that Sulphur is compos’d of an inflam- u mable thick Oyle, or fat Bitumen, an acid 44 Salt., a very thick Earthy and a little Me- 44 tal: The three firft were found not much unequal to one another, the fourth in So ^ Small a Quantity,, as Scarce to be worth the 44 com