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.

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    C 97 ] general view of the fymptoms to a febrile paroxyfm of the intermittent or remittent type; and we have endeavoured to prove that the Mility of the living folid, which is the caufe of the fymptoms, is to be re- moved by the proper ufe of jitmulan /reme- dies. Eledlricity is one of the moft pow- erful of this clafs ; and, as a power capa- ble of a diverfity of elfeds, deferves our fe- rious conlideration. An infulated living animal charged with the eledtric fluid, is found to be in a flimulated ftate. The circulation is quickened, and the adion of every part increafed. On the fudden ef- cape of this fubtile fluid from any part of an animal body thus infulated, on the ap- proach of a non-eledric, or negatively cledrifled body, a peculiar fhock or flimu- lus is felt in the part; and thus the Simu- lant effeds of eledricity may be locally as well as univerfally applied. This remedy is of great ufe in many local complaints. Applied in (hocks, or taken from an infu- lated animal in (parks, it is found a pow- O erful