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 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:
- 1722
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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 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.
35/164 page 13
![ae a | jefs {{ burning’: The Urinous moft of all, as is evident from Spanifh Flies, and that unextin- suifhable Subftance, ‘call’d the Pho/pheros, - fo readily and plentifully to be had from Hu- man Urine. (The Reafon of which may be from their pointed Figure, piercing more’ rea dily, by its being befmear’d witha light Oyl: Or from their greater attraétive Force; of from fome other Quality, not yet, or perhaps never to be difcover’d.) What is certain is — this, That Perfons of a large Appetite, as Goxz- ty Perfons generally are, feeding plentifully of Flefh and Fifh, and drinking liberally of ge- nerous Wines, or other ftrong Liquors, and eee Sead too little, or too much Exercife, muft neceflarily overftock their Blood with thefe fix’d and incorruptible parts of Animal and Vegetable Bodies ; which in their Nature being hard and burning, can’t fail, firft, to raife a Tumult and Fever; and thento give — ‘violent Pain, as they are driven out of the Habit, through more ftiff and narrow fmall Veffels, by the Force of the Circulation : So that a Fit of the Got may be confider’d, as a Crifis of a putrid Fever, wherein the noxious Humour is thrown upon fome of the Mutcles or Joints of the Body. el XMT. Coroll. 5, Hence we may difcover the Vanity of the Pretenders, to a certain and uni- Ee i EN Ce eS ILI I a ae I] Canptick. . : verlak](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546412_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
