Volume 1

An address to Doctor Cadogan, occasioned by his Dissertation on the gout and other chronic diseases: with remarks and observations. [Anon.] / [William Falconer].

  • William Falconer
Date:
1771
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Credit: An address to Doctor Cadogan, occasioned by his Dissertation on the gout and other chronic diseases: with remarks and observations. [Anon.] / [William Falconer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * your example, and after thirty years en¬ joyment of the bottle, with all the choice!! dainties and delicacies in life, yet with more temperance and fobriety than you appear to have done, * obferve your pre¬ cept, their heads being weaker and confti- tutions more feeble, and live upon ftewed endive and fmall beer, and now and then fip a glafs of poifonous wine, by way of me¬ dicine -f and luxurious indulgence. j What abfurdity and contradidtion ! How grand the difcovery, Dodtor, in phytic, after two thoufand years practice of the profeffion, to acquaint us in the fmall compafs of an hundred pages, § what might have been told in fxteen words, that exercife, temperance, a?id chearfulnefs pre- ferve and ref ore health; on the contrary, B 2 indolence, * From the fevere fits of the gout, the colic, the jaundice, and a complication of complaints, [page 95 ] with which you have been aiHidted, may it not be fairly concluded upon your own principles, good Dodtor, that you was very indolent, intemperate, and fretful in your youthful days ? t Page 63. % Page 93‘ § The fifth edition.