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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    [ H ] - whether or not they feel in perfe(5l health on the celTation of pain. For my own part I can affirm, that my fun(ftion of body and mind have been conhderably impaired for a length of time after a levere gouty pa- roxyfm. And experience inclines me to believe that this is commonly the cafe. It is true, indeed, that when a patient has laboured for a confiderable time under thofe varieties of gout which we are about to mention, or been idiopathically indifpofed previous to the attack of podagra or gouty inflammation of the foot, he will on the re- covery from the paroxyfm, feel much live- lier, and better than he did before;—the difeafed adtion being removed from the fto- mach, and vital parts to the extremities, on its difappearance from which health en- fues. Thus is the remark partially true, but generally falfe. At the beginning of the difeafe the re- turns of it are feldom frequent; once in two, three, or four years j but after it ad- ' vances