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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    C *8 ] Original from Phlegm mixt with Choler. Ludovicus Mercatus again will not allow any vitious Humours (tho5 they fhould abound) fufficient to produce the Gout; unlefs the fame be likewife crude and indi- gefted. Card anus holds the Caule of the Gout to be a Spirit, and Sennertus will have it to be a fait, fharp, fubtile Humour, fuch a one as for the great- eft part refembies fait Spirits. Many of the Chymifts, as Paracelfus, Petrus Severinus, and others, have laid all the Fault upon the Synovia; by which Term they mean the pellu¬ cid Mucilage, that is every where tranfcolated thro5 tht Glands, to lubricate the Parts, and more efpe- daily the Joints, and is of like fort with what we fee to run out of Calve s, or any other Beafts Feet, when they are cut. The Difoale (they fay) is a mi¬ neral Liquor, or a four auftere Juice, fuch as are Allum, Vitriol, Vinegar, Barberries, Acacia, and the like -s which being Salts contrary and oppofite to the Synovia, when they are generated in Men, make it boil over. The ingenious Dr. IVillis is of Opinion, that to caufe the Gout, a vitriolick Matter is brought from the Nerves, which meeting with Jome faline fix’d Particles of the Blood, they both boil up and grow hot together, and afterwatds turn to a Coagulant or Curd: To prove this, he gives a known Inftance of Spirit of Vitriol poured to Oil of Start'ar $. and why (lays he) may we not think that in the Fits of the Gout, there is fomething like it ? viz. That from the fighting and mutual conflict of the Liquors, which are of a diverfe faline Na¬ ture, the Nervous Fibres are prick’d and provok’d, and at length from the various Coagulations of either Juice, that there is fometimes heap’d together in the affedted Places, a Calculous, or ftony Matter. D r. Lifter s Sentiment hereabouts is fingular , he imagines that by fome of the ProcatarStick Caufes, the Excretory Du Sts about the Joints may be debilita*