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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    [ S<? ] was informed by a Gentleman ot great Inge¬ nuity, that having a good deal of Money on a Horfe, which was to run for the Plate at New-market, and the Rider dying not many Days before the time appointed for the Courfe; he had undertaken to ride himfelf, and was obliged by Falling, Watching, and Exercife, to bring down his Body to Horfeman’s weight; That after the Match was over, and he exact- ly weighed at the Poft, he had rode immedi¬ ately home, and having drunk up a pint of Chicken-broath only, which might weigh a- bout a pound, got to Bed, and dept twelve Hours, and weighing again under the fame Circumftances as before, found he had got in the whole about three pounds, if I remember right: Whereby he concluded, That his ex- haufted Body had drawn in about two pounds of the circumambient Air. This more ma- nifeftly fhews, how the Bath Waters being hot, and confequently more aftiye., may be drawn in, and get thro9 the Pores of the Skin into the Blood-veifelsj, and there concur with what is drunk down towards thofe kindly Ef- fe£ts_, Bathing commonly produces. And 7tis impoffible to account for thofe copious., and profufe Sweats., Perfons (if they lie long in Bed after Bathing) run into, but that their Bodies are HlPd with thefe Waters, like a foaked Spunge. But the weak, and low fpi- rited, are never to be buffered to run into thofe: Which are prevented., by either not §<>