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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![CONTENTS. N, B. The Contents of die Additions are mark'd with an After is ft *. * . « HE Introduction. Page i. §. r. That the Reafons why, of two Perfons, in all other Circumflances the fame ; the one has the Gout, the other is free from it, is, that the fmall Veffels of the Gouty Verfon in their original Conforma¬ tion are narrower and more ft iff than thofe cf the other, p. 2. §. 2. * Obfervatlonsconfirming this Proportion. p. 3. §. 3. * Obfervations flowing that in fome Conftitutions, the final] Veffels are proportionably lefler, in refpebl to their Bulks, than in others, ibid. That the Caufe of an Acquir’d Gout, in the ftrft Perfon, or thofl born of found Parents, is, fAe Abundance of Tartarous, Uri¬ nous, or other Salts, introduced, into the Blood by Food, p. 4. §.4, * Some Conjectures, propofed to determine more exactly, the Specihck Nature of thsje Goutifh Salts, p. <5. §. 5. * Several Confiderations flowing in general, the true Nature and Caufe of the Gout, p. 6. §. <5. * Showing, that the Gout cannot confft in the Pr amity of the Nervous juices, ibid. Hence we may learn the Reafon why, on the frft Attacks of the Gout, in otherwife healthy People, the Humours generally fall on the joints of the Limbs, p. 7. §. 6, a * A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
