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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![{ 39] | « ¢onfidering.”® Join all thefe Qualities toge- ther, and you have one of the moft admirable Remedies in the World, for all Intentions in the Cure of the Gout: By its agreeable Tafte and Lightnefs om the Stomach, ° (efpecially when wafh’d down with, any milky. Vehicle) — its Tenacity, Ropinefs and Elafticity; the Smallnefs of its Parts; their Efficacy in deftroy- ing the Mifchief of all faline Particles, with their natural. Warmth, join’d to the Aftivity of its acid Salt, (making it a kind of natura} Soap) it enters the fmall Veffels, where no or ther Diluent, hitherto known, can come; cleanfes their Infides from the Foulnefs, that fticks to. them; imbibes and retains all the Gouty Salts, and carries them out of the Body by Perfpiration; foftens, {mooths and relaxes. the parch’d and ftiffen’d Fibres; and by leas ving fome of its oily Parts on their Surfaces, fheaths and defends them from the Points, of the Salts afterwards introduc’d. And the Fad is, from repeated Trials I can recommend Sa/- _ phur, asa moft powerful Remedy in the Inter-_ vals of the Gout. Forl have known half a Dram. of powder’d Sulphur, or Flowers. of Brimftone, taken regularly twicea Day in a Spoonful of Milk, prevent the Fit for many Years: and leffen both its Pain and Duration when it. happen’d: For it mov’d the Body gently once or twice a Day. I have in my Poffeffion Teftimonies under the Hands. of fome treated and tended by my fell; ant oF | | others](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546412_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
