Advice to gouty persons / by Richard Kentish.

  • Kentish, Richard, 1730-1792.
Date:
1791
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Credit: Advice to gouty persons / by Richard Kentish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    [ ] moft profound phyficians will confefs, that they are yet unacquainted with the pathog- nomic marks of the difeale. This remark indeed might, without injuftice, be ex- .tended throughout nofology. But the di- greffion is here inadmiffible. I have commented upon the mutability of difeafc in another place, and the reader will be in- clined to forgive my want of copioufnefs on this fubjecl, when he is informed that phy- ficians of the greateft pradice in the prefent age, are unable to determine upon the {ymptoms which characterize the moft common complaints.—A profeffor of Edin- burgh alTerts, that a pain of the right fhoul- der is a pathognomic lign of an inflamed li- ver 3 whilft a celebrated Phylician of this metropolis affirms, that hiccough is the fought-for fymptom. The fame profeffor teaches that a diminution of the pulfe in continued fevers is a good fign, whilft the fame Phyfician aflerts, that it is always a bad one. Since DoCtors difagree, it will not be furprifing that even in the fhort hiflory whiph 1 am to deliver, fuch heterogeneous Symptoms