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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![[ ”6 ] ed by frequent, warm, gentle Purgers. It is for the fame Reafon, that gentle Vomits of the Indian Root: the Jefmts Bark: and a low Diet, thjjit gives the beft Perfpiration, and be¬ gets the leaft of that acid Flatulency, which ferments into thofe Bulmomck Convulfwns: iiicceed beft in the Nervous Afthma: as the Syrup made of the expre fs'd Juice of Millepedes 7 or Hoglice drown'd in White-wine, and giv'n by Spoonfuls, will infallibly cure Children's Convulfive or Chin-coughs; and as the Squill Vomits3 Oils, and attenuating Medicines, luch as the volatile Salts, and Plants [Garlic efpe- cially) do in the Humorous. LXX. Having had frequent occafion to mention the Bark, as being abfolutely necef- fary to the Subject I treat; it may not be a- mifs to remove one Objection againft it; and the only one I have ever heard or read made with any Shew of Reafon. I have taken as much of it my felf, and as often, and have preferib'd it as freely as any of my Age, I be¬ lieve; and never obferv'd it, either in my felf or others, do any Hurt, except when it has been injudicioufly and improperly preferib'd, and that in continu'd acute Cafes only. The Objection is, that it often leaves behind it a bad Habit, a Scorbutic, Cache£ficy or HeStic Conftitution; bad Lungs, Liver, or Stomach s or feme of the great Vifcera fpoil'd or corrupt¬ ed But the Miftake in this Objection lies here.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0136.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
