Observations concerning the nature and due method of treating the gout ... together with an account of the nature and qualities of the Bath waters ... / [George Cheyne].
- George Cheyne
- Date:
- 1720
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations concerning the nature and due method of treating the gout ... together with an account of the nature and qualities of the Bath waters ... / [George Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The Secondary Methods of relieving the Gout are two: x. Dilution by proper Liquids , fuch as m Bath and German Spaa Water, or other Chaly~ beat Waters 5 Dwarf Elder Tea, Trifoil Tea., lighty quick Green Tea, finaU Spicy Bitters on Watery and the like. p. 17. §.15. 2. Strengtloners of the Inftruments of Digeftion ; The Peruvian Bark efpeciallj 5 where its Vir¬ tues and Qualities are explain d. p, x 8* §. 16. The Advantages of Mercurial Medicines m the Gout confided d, A Salivation will banifh the Gout for feme time $ but then it tears and rends the fmallFibres, whereby the future Fits become more painful and obftinate. p* 20. §. x 7.. The Method by which one is to treat himfelf under the Fit?, in its beginning? middle and end. p . 2 3 . §. 18. Opiats not to be given in the Gout, but in the laft Extremity $■ with two ways of ordering Forms of fuch Medicines., p. 25. §. 19* The manner of treating the Gouty after the Bain is over: Stomach Burgers fir ft, then A Obs Milk is recommended; and laftly, Spaa or Bath Waters- with Aromatick Bitters, p. 27. §.20. Rhubarb recommended as an excellent Brefervative* from the Gout, taken in the Intervals of the Fits; with the Rea fans thereof p. 28. §.21. The manner ofufing Rhubarb, with other fucceda- neous Bnegatives, in cafe of its difagreeing„. p. 30. §. 22. Sulphur, and its Flowers recommended as the mofl noble of all Medicines, for the Cure of the Gout) with the Reafons thereof ] its Nature a 2.. md:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30505343_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
