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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![[ ”.4 ] confide'rable Time, till the Diftcmpcr began to decline (and then I lengthned its Intervals,) together with an AnticacheEtic Diet, already explain'd. To anfwer the fecond Intention, I prefcrilfd for a Month, or fix Weeks, bn all the intermediate Days, a large Dofe of iy£thi~ ofls Mineraly with Bath Waters to wafh it down. And Laftly7 After this Courfe finifhed, to anfwer the third Intention, I gave an Ele¬ ctuary of the Bark, Orange cPeely Powder of Acorns, and Crocus Mart is AJlr ingens, to brace the Nerves inwardly 5 and order'd cold Bathing every other Day, for producing the fame Effect outwardly 5 and the Cure feldom exceeded three Months. LXIX. The Diftin&ion of an Humorous, and a Nervous Afthma7 Cholick, Cough, and Gouty &c. ought all, to be founded (in true &Philofophy) on the Difference between a firm, ft iff, and Jlretctid State, and a loofle7 flabby, relax'd State of Nerves: And the different / ' t Method of treating them, ought chiefly to con- lift, in the different Degrees of Evacuations they require. Thofe of the humorous Kind abounding in more grofs, heavy, and fizy Humours, and a greater Plenty of them 5 re¬ quire more plentiful and more powerful Eva¬ cuations: But then thofe of the nervous Kind, require always fome previous Evacuation, in Proportion to weaker Animal Functions. As for Example, in the Nervous, or Hyft eric Cho-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0134.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
