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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![[19 ] ly begets the worft kind of Hyfterical and and difmal Confequences (at leaft till the Bo- _ dy has been long accuftom’d to it) which isa Difeafe far worfe than the Gozt it felf: And to ~ which the Gout only brings the Patient, in its laft and fatal Stages. Secondly, Becaufe. this Diet, once enter’d upon, is never after to be Symptoms. Fora Vegetable Diet, as has been juft now hinted, weakening the digeftive Powers, and all the Fun@ions of Life, €%c. the Patient can never after be brought to bear with a free way of living, without the Ha- _ zard of certain Death, or a violent enraging of the Gouty Symptoms; as is too plain from many fatal Inftances. Ifany Diet is ever to be try’d in the Gout, it is to be order’d in Corzaro’s Method; that is, by living on the lighteft Digeftion, and drinking generous, un. mix’d Wines, both ofthem in fmall, and con- ftantly equal Quantities, in Weight and Mea- fare; under the Craving of the Appetite, Efe. e KX. Scholes The Cafe of a Perfon is well known to me, whoto daily Exercife, and riding on Horfe-back, and other proper Remedies, ad- ded four Years of a ftri&t Regimen, or Diet, to D 2 which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546412_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
