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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![[ 1 *5 ] ' ■ lie, when it is come to perpetual Reachings> inward Throws , and Convulsions, tho’ the Patient vomits not grofs Choler, or great Quantities of Fhlegm (tho’ this laft is feldoni altogether wanting) yet there is hill lodg’d in the Glands of the Stomach and Guts, a more fubtile, and irritating Matter, which twitch¬ es, and fets the Mufcular Fibres into thofe Convulfions. And the formal Difference be¬ tween a Bilious, and an Hyfteric Cholick, confifts in this: That fcarce any Thing but the Sharpnefs, and abundance of thofe Hu¬ mours, could poffiblv provoke thefe ftiffer, and more firm Fibres unto fuch violent Con¬ tractions. Whereas the flight eft, and moft fubtile fharp Steam, is fufficient to convulfe thefe weaker, and more relax’d Nerves: Which when once fet a going (the chief Thing to be obferv’d) will, like a Bendulum, conti¬ nue their Vibrations for a conftderable Time from the firft imprefted Force. And therefore let their Reachings, and Pukings be ever lb violent, and frequent, a Nervous, or Hyfieric Cholick, will not fo readily, or fo certainly terminate, as by firft premifing an Artificial Vomit (contrary to Sydenham s Opinion) to cleanfe the Alimentary Pall ages from the ir ri¬ tating Caufe j and then endeavouring by warm Cordials, proper Antihyftericks, and Carmina¬ tives combin’d with Opiates (in the leaft Ve¬ lum) to fettle and compofe the undulating Vi¬ brations» And both Cholicks are belt prevent- (F 2 ed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0135.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
