A treatise upon the rheumatism, with observations upon some causes that may produce it / [John Cheshire].

  • John Cheshire
Date:
1723
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise upon the rheumatism, with observations upon some causes that may produce it / [John Cheshire]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Relief of thole, who were af- flided with it, we may reafonably conclude that it was a Species of what is now efteemed a Rheurrn* tifm. d ,lV ~ r- ,;■' ] I> •/.[ ■? 7\ There is in every Conftitution a Propenfity or natural Tendency to one Difeafe more thafi another, and this feems to proceed from the weak Strudureof the Fabrick, not equally fortified in every Part from the In-* conveniencies, which Man, from the. Nature of his Exiftence, is continu¬ ally expofed to ; the various Incle¬ mencies of the Air, any Irregularity in eating or drinking, produces dif¬ ferent EfFeds in different Perfons t One from an ohfiruBed Perforation (or as we generally term it from taJ king Cold) is attacked with a Pleu- rify, another is feized with an An¬ gina > a third with a Diarrhoea, bili¬ ous 3