On rheumatism and gout; a letter addressed to Sir George Baker, bart / [John Latham].

  • Latham, John, 1761-1843
Date:
1796
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Credit: On rheumatism and gout; a letter addressed to Sir George Baker, bart / [John Latham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prefume to confider myfelf as a welcome vifitor, fince the fubjed which I fhall proT pofe for your examination (and on which I fhall ultimately hope for your approbation) 1 V will be an attack upon old opinions—in which, perhaps, I fhall find you fortified by numbers againft me; but which I conceive to have been defended by a fuppofed imprac¬ ticability of the approach, rather than by the real ftrength of the fortrefs. The opinions to which I allude, are fuch /• «... > - * which the world in general, medical as well as other men, have hitherto held concerning thofe two very frequent difeafes, rheumatifm and gout; and which floating, as it were, in the minds of mankind, without any compafs to dired, or rudder to fleer their courfe, . r; ! « t have been tolled about by prejudices, and at laft loll in uncertainty. It is no argument to fay, that in one of them fometimes, and in the other often, we fail on profperoufly and reach the expedecl coafl, fince this is more the eflfed of chance than of any well concerted plan, and is owing rather to the nature of the veflel itfelf, than to the regular i . * * • management of the pilot—which being well c-.