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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![{ 207] which was: introduc’d by an Autumnal Ague: The firft Year was {pent in a gradual Decreafe - from aifull. to a low, Diet.. In which, Break- _ faft and rain: were near a Quart of Affes Milk; and Dinner, boil’d Chicken, Veal, or -Lamb, with boil’d Milk, and Water for. Drink, | and not above a Glafs of Wine., The twa middle Years were fpent in a rigid Milk Diet, religioully confined to. Bread and M:/k only., The Esd was. obtain’d, the Juices {weetned, all the Scorbutic Sores heal’d up, the Appe- tite reftor’d, the Spirits render’d, light and eafy. The, laft Year. was fpent like the firft, in a cautious and gradual, Entry upon.a fuller, - Diet, with a jut, Senfe of the Danger, either - of fatisfying the Appetite to the full, which — then grew craving and ravenous,.or advan- ~ cing too quickly upon, ftrong Food, for.which. the concoctive Powers. were not equal. ; ‘Three: Fourths of the whole Diet being M4i/k Meats, and the reft Flefh-of-the lightelt Digeftion. Yet had the long continued : low, Diet, fo) far impoverifhed the Fluids, eool’d: the na- tural Heat, and. relax’d the Solids, that they Change: So that the Perfon:in- the follow- ing Spring, was thrown by it, into a lin-: ering, dangerous, ‘Patrid, Fever, wherein his Life was defpair’d of by. all, his. Phyfcians. _ The Prince of Conde alfo, after. having, long fuffered, and been. quite overcome by, the. ‘Gout, was advis’d by his PAyfcians for. fe .e-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546412_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
