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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    / [ 47 ] fore the Bath Waters not being impregnated with any Quantity of a faline Mixture, can retain nothing in their own proper Subftance but the lighter!: Parts of the Steel and Sulphur. Secondly, That this Water is as fully impregna¬ ted with Sulphur, as it can bear, has been al¬ ready fhewn: And that there mult be a greater Proportion of Steel in Bath Water than is ma» nifefted to the Senfes, or difcover’d by any Ex¬ periment hitherto made, is evident from its healing Effects, which no known Medicine but Steel can bring about, or account for / None but thole who have feen it, can believe the wonderful Efficacy it has, in molt chro¬ nical Cafes* What, but Steel, in a few Weeks, can make the Blood, from a white blueifh of tallow Hue, refilling the Knife, like Glew, fwimming in its Serum, like an Xfiand amidft the Ocean, look all of a Piece, of a Scarlet Colour, and a due Proportion between its nou- rilhing and its watery Parts. Nothing but Steel can make a pale afh-colour’d Countenance, hol¬ low and deep Eyes, no Appetite, little Strength and lefs Sleep ; eat, and drink, and fieep, look gay and fieek, like the belt Health. Thou- lands of Inch Inftances may be feen every Seafon at thefe healthful Springs* Thirdly ^ The Effects of Sulphur in bridling the fenlible Appearances and Operations of molt aflive Medicines, is very well known. Inftances of which, in natural Bodies, are, Antimony and native Cinnabar; in artificial ones, JEthiops Mine-