A treatise on the nature and cure of gout, comprehending a general view of a morbid state of the digestive organs; and of regimen: with some observations on rheumatism / [Charles Scudamore].

  • Charles Scudamore
Date:
1816
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of gout, comprehending a general view of a morbid state of the digestive organs; and of regimen: with some observations on rheumatism / [Charles Scudamore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. A.tnouan the subject of Gout has engaged the attention of Authors from the earliest re- cords of Medicine, there are few diseases which have remained more enveloped in doubtful theory; or in which, the practice has been so unsettled, and involved in prejudice. It may, indeed, be affirmed, that the Gout has, at all times, been a favourite object for the exercise of Empiricism: and every day’s observation demonstrates, that whilst the impositions of quackery are received by gouty persons with the fondest credulity, the art of regular medicine is treated with indifference, or even rejected: so powerfully does an unknown agent affect the imagination, and indispose the