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? ] Patient. Befides, finceit isfuppos'd, the Gout has already feizfd the Stomach, cleanfing it by a Vomit can never fix it more there ; fince it is likewife fuppos’d, the Gout is no where elfe at that Time : And that all the Humours are then lodg’d in the Center of the Body. But as it doth in all other Cafes, and moft certainly in the tranfient Fits of the Gout in the Stomach, it is thtn the moft likely Means to promote the Gout on the Extre¬ mities. Laftljy, I know no Rule a Fhyfician has to direct him in fuch Cafes, but follow¬ ing the Indications of Nature, and in what Cale foever perpetual Vomitings and Re etch¬ ings happen. If Circumftances do not for¬ bid it, Nature points out as clearly its Re¬ lief from a gentle Vomit, as it does Rhubard in a 'Diarrhoea, The general Prejudices a- gainft Vomiting arife from an Ignorance of its Mechanifm, and the Way ’tis performed, I will here fet down in Englijh, Tournforf s own Words, as he gives the Account of it, in the \Preface to his excellent Piece „ of the Riants that grow about Paris. Mr. Chirac (fays he) demonftrates, in a manner obvious to our Sen- fes, the Action of the Stomach, and of the Organs imploy’d in Vomiting, “ Having made a a fmall Wound along the Rib that lies over a againft the Navel of a Dog, who had fwab a low’d fome corrofive Sublimate> and was a making moft vehement Endeavours to Vo- a mit ; he dipt in his Hand thro1 the After-