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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    [•39 ] without exercife, by which is to be under- ftood all the various modifications of it, as motion, thought, and all the lefTer exer- tions and actions, we cannot continue life. And' however great the luxury of cafe and repofe may be, a ftate of exertion is highly neceffary to the exi/lence as well as the en- joyment of life.—Confine a man to his feat, and difeafe enfues; deprive him of the power of motion, and death indubitably happens. The experiment is perhaps impoflible, but if we may reafon by induction, there feems to be no doubt, that a man bound in fuch a fituation, as to be incapable of uhng any mufcle, would foon expire, even though he was regularly fupplied with food; the very digeftion of which is not performed without mufcular motion, as the periftal- tic motion of the inteflinal canal evinces. Thefe confiderations, therefore fliew, that life is not an inherent, felf-creating princi- ple, but an adventitious property of matter, dependant