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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    [7? ] I At leaft it feldom comes to pafs, that any one is much troubled with the Gout, but he has the Stone, at laid. And this fbews that they are both owing to the fame Conformation of Parts, and other general Caufes. It is true9 fome have differ’d violently by the Stone, who never had the Gout; but this may be owing toafpecial, hereditary Narrownefs and Stiff* nefs of the Urinary Palfages, in refpedt of the other Veifels*, and a particular unhappy Tex¬ ture of Parts, as it happens to fome other Organs in other Perfons: For fat People have fmaller Veifels in Proportion to their Stature,, than lean. But in the general, it is pretty conftant, that thofe who fufferlong under fe» vere Fits of the Gout, feldom efcape the Stone. 1Dt.Cyprianus:> the late ingenious Cutter for the Stone, had obfervM, that thofe who only drunk Malt Liquor were feldom ever voilent- ly afflidted with that Diftemper: And among many hundred he had cut, he had never found one, who had only drunk Ale or Beer. Whether this was owing to the lefler Quan¬ tity of Salts in thofe Liquors than in Wine, or to the Slipperinefs they induce upon the Bowels and other Veffels, or to both, I will not here take upon me to determine. But I believe the Fadfc is, both in the Stone and acquired Gouts, that thofe who only drink Malt Liquors, without Wine or Spi¬ rits, are feldom violently afflicted with ei¬ ther. And for the fame Reafons it comes L t Q