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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    [ &> ] u ture, and took hold of the Stomach, and u there he found, that the Stomach it felf felt u no manner of Force, or Violence: But that u the 'Diaphragm, and the Mufcles of the u lower Belly, contra&ing themfelves both a at the fame Time in anlnftant: With incre- u dible Force, Jqueez’d the Hand that held a the Stomach ” From this Account, it is evident, the Stomach it felf buffers no more violence in Vomiting, than a Veffel doth, that is cleans’d by pouring Water into it, and then pouring it out again ; for the whole Strels of the Vomit lies on the Diaphgram, and the Mufcles of the lower Belly: Organs ftrong in themfelves, feldom or ever fubjeftto any Diff orders, and if at all imploy’d in Digeftion, at lead; in fo gentle and uniform a Manner, as can never be fufpe&ed of wearing them out. The Ancients were fo poffeffed in favour of Vomiting, that Hyppocrates himfelf recom¬ mends it to grols, wellFcrions, to vomit three Times a Month to preferve their Health. And to lean well Ones, to vomit twice a Month for the fame Purpofe. Whatever be in this, certain it is, where continual Vomit¬ ings and Reachings are the Symptom, a gen¬ tle Vomit can never be amifs ; when Bleeding has been premis’d, and Circumflances forbid it not. It were to be wifh’d, that the Modern Method of gentle Stomach Purges, with inter- fpers’d Jweeting Bowders (as they are called) could fupply the Place of Vomits, becaule of