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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![. [ ia ] tural Functions arc more readily Aid regu¬ larly perform'd: and therein the beft Health and tmeft Senfations confift: Strong Health requires liberal Supplies 5 and both together lengthen out Life. XI. SchoL On the other Hand, this con- flant, and univerfal Obfervation, {viz.) That Gouty Perfons are commonly found ftrong, healthy, adive, acute, and prudent Perfons, is a manifeft \Demonftration of the Truth of the firft Tropojition: All thefe pointing and pro¬ claiming a ftrong, fiiff, fpringy, and contrad- ed State of Fibres, and Nerves: Such a State of Fibres and Nerves, being abfo- lutely neceflary to fuch a Conftitution. And it may not be amifs to obferve, that when Age and the Gout have fubdu’d, relax’d, and foftned the Nervous Syftem, all thefe are pro- portionably impair’d, and therefore a more ftiff, ftretclfd, and fpringy State of the Nerves, and Fibres, is an abfolutely neceflary Condi¬ tion towards the Gout: And this Condition plainly points out the true Method, both of Cure, and of Relief in it. XII. CorolL 4. From thefe alio, we may difeover what a Fit of the Gout is, to wit, an Effort of Nature, to throw off this Abun¬ dance of Salts, through more ftiff and narrow * Strainers. Salts of all Kinds are more or * Secretory Duffs. lefs](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
