Volume 1

Observations on Dr. Cadogan's dissertation on the gout and all chronic diseases / [William Falconer].

  • William Falconer
Date:
[1772]
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Credit: Observations on Dr. Cadogan's dissertation on the gout and all chronic diseases / [William Falconer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tained the utility of cathartic medicines in. this diforder. Cheyne advifes them to be taken during the intervals, but exprefsly prohibits their ufe daring the paroxyfm, Hoffman, indeed, has recommended them at the beginnning of the fit; but all concur in this, that their ufe ought to be confined to thofe cafes wherein the Vis Vitce is too firong, (as fometimes happens, when the fiibjedt is in the prime of life, and of a bili¬ ous temperament) but that they are univer- fally injurious, and, even dangerous, where that is deficient, as contributing to weaken what ought to be the intention to preferve as much as poffible. But, if I apprehend the prefent cafe rightly, there feems to be greater probability, that the patient would ftand in need of cordial and ftimulant, than antiphlogiftic, or evacuating medicines. By the foregoing account, he appears to be in the decline of life, and probably his confu¬ tation much injured, and his ftrength im¬ paired. which will not be unreafonable to X 7 luppofe, (in a cafe confeffedly bad) from L 2 having