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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![[37] Itis to.their Sa/phur that Bodies owe the refleG-. ing and refracting Virtues; from whence its {Inflammability proceeds. * The Particles of | Sulpburous Bodies receive and retain thofe of | Light and Fire, more ftrongly than any other Bodies: And the Rays of Light and Particles of Fire, feparate, move and turn the Parts of’ Sulphurous Bodies into Fire and Flame. 2. The Parts of Sulphurous Bodies are very fmafl, even fmaller than thofe of Water it felf, whereby it comes to pafs that they will enter — thofe fmall Veffels, where Water it felf (our beft and moft univerfal Diluent) can’t come ; this is evident from hence, that Water will not diffolve Sulphur, and that no. Moifture will ftick to fat Subftances, or the Feathers of Water Fowl: As alfo from its Cure of all cutaneous Foulnefs; which it coud ne- ver effeCtuate but by entering all thofe f{mal- left Veffels, which fcarce any other Medicine canenter. And /affly, by its diffolving the fi- zy Juices of the fmalleft internal G/azds, when obftructed ; particularly thofe of the Lungs, Mefentery and Rectum; as in the humorous Altima, Scrophula and Piles. 3. Sulphurous Bodies will readily unite with, and deftroy the Effects of all Saline Particles, but efpecially thofe of the acid kind. And in this their great Energy feems to confift. Sulphur yields * Vide Sir Maac Newton’s Treatife of Lizht ard Coloters, y Edit, in Englith, towards the end, oy the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546412_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
