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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    [^] with fmaller Dofes, and to rife, as the Pulfe and Strength rifes , And as Ufage has made fmaller Dofes lefs effectual; I remember to have obferved in fome of the great, and fa- gacious Dr. Ratcliff’s Bills, four or five Drops of Mynfycht’s Tinffiure of Steelj with a few Drops or Elixir Brofrietatis in a fimple Wa¬ ter, prefcrib’d as a Chalybeat Bitter, even to grown Perfons. This I freely own, in the Novitiat of my Oblervations, I thought very fimple. I have had good Reafon to condemn my rafh Judgment fince, and to acknowledge it prudent, and judicious, to begin in fome low Cafes with fetch fmall Dofes. XLIY. The other Difficulty is, how the fame hot Water fhou’d relax contracted Fibres, as in the Gout and Rheumatifbt; and yet con- trad and brace relaxed Fibres, as in the Palfy and wafted Limbs. That the Matter of Fact is fo, is paft all doubt in thefe and many other Cafes of Contraction and Relaxation. But to clear up this, we need only to confider what . Contraction and Relaxation are. Since all the Fluids of the Body are contain’d in Yeffels, Contraction can arife from nothing but from the Blood and other Fluids (or whatever is the Caufe of mufeular Motion) their being retain'd and obftruCted by their Sizinefs; or from fome external Injury, in the Subftance of the Mufcie it felf; whereby it becomes ful¬ ler and firmer, and fo a£h as upon its Office