The honour of the gout: or, a rational discourse, demonstrating, that the gout is one of the greatest blessings which can befal mortal man ... By way of letter to an eminent citizen / [Philander Misaurus].

  • Philander Misaurus
Date:
1735
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Credit: The honour of the gout: or, a rational discourse, demonstrating, that the gout is one of the greatest blessings which can befal mortal man ... By way of letter to an eminent citizen / [Philander Misaurus]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Such the Gont is not: For Nature throwing ofF morbifick Matter to the remo¬ ter Parts of the Body, does defignedly be¬ get the Goiit^ and make Ufe of that admira¬ bly Remedy to cure Difeafes already got¬ ten, and to prevent others. But it is not mereReafon which I rely upon, when I advife Men to truft Nature alone- for their Recovery, and never go to a Phyfician : I have the greatefl Authority tp fupport my Advice, 2 Chron^ xvi. 12. Asa, in the 39th Year of his Reign, was difeas’d in his Feet, [as I am now, which hinders me from running to my Commentators \ ] but I remember the Phrafe of the Septuagint is, his Feet were foft and tender, [fwel- led with the Gout^ that mud: be the Mean¬ ing*] until his Difeafe [Gont] was exceed¬ ing great , yet in his Difeafe, in the extream Softnefs and Tender- nefs of his Gout] he fought not te the Lord^ but to the Vhyfician^ I Do not fee how our DoBors of Vhyfick can evade the Force of this Text, in Defence of their Profeflion : For ’tis a very weak and precarious Reply which they make, when they tell us, That Afa H is