An essay of the true nature and due method of treating the gout together with an account of the nature and quality of Bath waters, the manner of using them and the diseases in which they are proper: as also, of the nature and cure of most chronical distempers, not published before / [George Cheyne].
- George Cheyne
- Date:
- 1723
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay of the true nature and due method of treating the gout together with an account of the nature and quality of Bath waters, the manner of using them and the diseases in which they are proper: as also, of the nature and cure of most chronical distempers, not published before / [George Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[,-8j ] the Fit. And cold Bathing, and rubbing with a Fiefh Brufh, Morning and Night, are fome of the moft certain outward Means, to bring Strength and Nourifhment into it, in the Intervals. LVII. SchoL I have had fome Reflections about the Preference between old French Cla¬ ret, and old Portugal, or Sganifh Wines, in the Intervals of the Gout. The generality give into the latter Opinion: But I very much doubt, if with any juft Reafon, or cer¬ tain Obfervation. Without all peradventurc, French Wine will more readily throw out a Fit of the Gouty thanthofe others. But that, in my Opinion, is fo far from being an Argu¬ ment againft it, that it is in its Favour5 for certain it is, that a Angle Bout, or two, of hard Drinking in French Claret, (and thefe are more than fufficient to throw out a Fit of the Gout) cannot ftore the Blood with fuch Plenty of gouty Matter, as is fufficient to fur- ni(h out a Fit. Nature works by flower De¬ grees, and fuch a drinking Bout can no other- wife produce a Fit of the Gouty than by the Wine's Aftringency, ftrengthning the Stomach, and bracing the Fibres of the Veflels, and by its generous warmth, fupplying plenty of Spi¬ rits, the Force of the Circulation becomes fuel), as to be able to drive out the dormant, gouty Humour that lay difperfed thro* the Habit. And if there, be any faulty Humour in the Bo¬ dy, I think it a great Advantage to have ft M 2 thrown](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
