The dishonour of the gout: or, a serious answer to a ludicrous pamphlet, lately publish'd [by Philander Misiatrus], entitled, The honour of the gout; shewing, I. That the gout is one of the greatest misfortunes that can happen ... II. That all those afflicted ... would gladly be rid of it. And III. That there is a safe and sure cure for it / By John Marten.

  • John Marten
Date:
1737
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Credit: The dishonour of the gout: or, a serious answer to a ludicrous pamphlet, lately publish'd [by Philander Misiatrus], entitled, The honour of the gout; shewing, I. That the gout is one of the greatest misfortunes that can happen ... II. That all those afflicted ... would gladly be rid of it. And III. That there is a safe and sure cure for it / By John Marten. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t >«] reading in the Chamber j another Affliction that difturbs the Patient, is the wearifome turning of the Part hither and thither, and it's continually changing of Place. The tolling likewife of the whole Body which always attends the Fit, is as tirefome as the continual Agitation and ain of the affikfted Member. A thoufand endeavours are ufed in changing the Pofture of the Body, and the Place whereon the Member lies to alleviate the Pain, but no Eafe is had till two or three a Clock in the Morning of the fecond Day, at which time the Patient is fuddenly reliev’d by reafon there is lome Digeftion and Difcufflonof the Peccant Matter, tho’ he undefervedly afcribes it to that Pofition of the affecfted Member he ufed laft. And now being in a breathing Sweat, he falls a-fleep, when he wakes, he finds the Pain much abated, and the Part affecfted, fwelPd. The next Day, and per¬ haps two or three after, if the Matter that breeds the Gout^ is copius, the Part affedted will be more in Pain again, which encreafes towards the Eve¬ ning, but abates about the time of the Cock’s crowing. Within a few Days the other Foot will be in Pain as the former was, and if the former has left off aking, the Weaknefs it had, foon vanifhes, and Strength is fo immediately reftored to it, as if it .never had been out of Order, if the Pain is violent in the Foot lately feiz’d. Sometimes when there is fuch an abundance of Peccant Matter, that one Foot is not able to contain it, it afflicts both together with equal Violence ; but mo ft com¬ monly it feizes them one after another as has been laid. After it has troubled the Feet, the Fits that follow are Irregular, both as to the Time of their Approach and Duration $ yet the Pain always re¬ turns in the Evening, and abates again by Morn¬ ing, and of a Series of thefe final! Fits, confifts what we call a Fit of the Gout, longer or fhorter ao