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.
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![[4] verfal, Remedy for the Gout. For unlefs .a Remedy could be found, which at once cou’d _ change and new-mould the folid Parts of Hu- man Bodies; alter the Nature and Qualities of Animal.and Vegetable Bodies ; and deftroy Parts, that are in their. own: Nature fix’d and permanent, it is impoffible it fhou’d be cer- tain and. univerfal; and how poffible fuch a Remedy ‘is, I leave every one to judge... XIV. Coroll..6. Hence it is evident, there can be only -two direct. Ways of Treating the. Gout, with,any Profpect of Succefs. The one .~ is, by {tretching and widening the Capacities of the fmall Veifels, and * relaxing their H- bres. ‘The other is, by leffening the Quantity of the Salts introdue’d into the Fluids by the Food; thefe being the two Antidotes or Op- pofites to, the two fundamental Caufes of ac- quir’d. Gouts. ax? XV. Here it may be convenient to take,no- tice of the Difference between hereditary and acquird Gouts... The latter is produc’d in a Perfon, otherwife found, from Ignorance or Negligence,of the exact Rules of living, For cho’ there be a natural Configuration of Parts, that difpofes one Man more than another to the Gout:; yet there might be a Method of *3) ackning. ! former](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546412_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
