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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![t- Preference he gives to it before Su/phur ; all I can fay is, that [am ready to name a great many Perfons of Condition and Parts, who are now taking, or have taken Sa/phur in the In- tervals of the Gout, and.none without Succefs, - more, or lefs: According to their Age, Cons ftitution, and Management in other Refpetts. I think it -unjuftifiable to mention their Names without their leave, and I have no juft Reafon to ask it, not pretending to any Vo/trum or Se- cret. But having plainly difcovered all that I - know in the matter, fo that every Body is _ left to his own Liberty : and- when Camphire has been as often, and: more fuccefsfully try’d, — _I thal] moft readily give it the Preference, be« ing much lefs concerned for Reputation, than for being ufeful in Proportion to my poor A- bilities. Tho’ I own, I defpair of finding a better Remedy in the Interval of the Fits of the Goat, than Su/pbur rightly managed. XXXIV. Efpecially ifto thefe be added plen- tiful Dilution by fome Blood-warm. Infufion ofa fpicy and diuretick Plant in Water, fo as. _ to provoke a gentle Breathing Sweat, and pafs freely by Urine. Thus large Draughts of _ Sage, Dwarf-Elder, Buck-bean, or Green Tea; but efpecially of weak Whey made on ok - Mountain, drunk Blood-warm, and on an ~ empty Stomach, and join’d to any of the now -.mention’d Medicines, will be of great Ad- vantage in the Intervals of the Gout ; by dilu- oe vA Gee) ting](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546412_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
