The nature, cause and symptoms of the gout: as stated by Dr. Sydenham, Cheyne, etc. from which is rationally deduced its direct and perfect cure / Gilbert Nelson.
- Nelson, Gilbert
- Date:
- [1727]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The nature, cause and symptoms of the gout: as stated by Dr. Sydenham, Cheyne, etc. from which is rationally deduced its direct and perfect cure / Gilbert Nelson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![.An Ob¬ jection rais'd a- gainft at tempting to Cure the GOut. f conf. p. io. * P*& u 1 P*£-15- [ <52 ] tempting to Cure the Gout 5 and, The fuppofed Impoffibility of ever effecting a Safe and Certain Cure; Which I hope to convert into fo many Argu- guments for the <Po0ility of Curing it. OBJECTION. In the firft Place then, it is object¬ ed that the Gout is fo far from being a Difeafe which we fhould be folicitous to Cure, that in moll Circumftances, it is the only Remedy the Conftitution can have againft much greater Evils: “ If ( fays the Obje&or ) this Sandy, <c Gritty, Saline, (Gouty) Matter is in “ the Body, and a Perfon has not <c Strength enough to carry it farther <c than the Inteftines, which cannot be cc but in extream Weaknefs, f and if it “ does not all Secrete off by Urine, “ which alfo cannot be but in very fee- “ ble Conftitutions, * there is then no £C riddance to be procured but by Tranfpiration, f and if that fails it “ will](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30776417_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
