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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![[»] Sydenham, otherwifc a moil accurate Obfer- ver of Nature, and a moft judicious Practitio¬ ner, has been the Occaflon, I think, of a great Miftake in the Management of the Gout ; by forbidding almoft all Evacuations, either in the Fit, or in the Intervals, for fear of weak¬ ening the Conftitution. There are two Sea- ions, to wit, Spring and Fail, when the Peri¬ odical Fits of regular Gouts commonly hap¬ pen 5 which I confider as Cardinal and Criti¬ cal Difcharges, under general and mechanical Influences, for purifying the Blood, and dift charging the Gouty Salts: In which Nature is no more to be difturb'd in its Operations (I mean as to Purging, for even then a gentle, flow, conftant and uniform Perfpiration and Breathing Sweat may be promoted, not only fafely, but with great Advantage) than in the Monthly Purgations of the Sex. But in light, flying Touches of the Gout, out of the he Seafons* and in the Intervals of the Fits, gen¬ tle, warm, ftomachic Burgers will be an ex- cellent Remedy to fend thefe a going, to lef- fen the Fits, and lengthen the Intervals. A Perfon out of the Pain and Inflammation of the Fits, and in their Intervals, (except his na¬ tural Difpofition to breed another Fit) is, to all Intentions of Medicines, the fame as a well Perfon. And all Medicines levelled againfk other Difeafes incident to humane Bodies, may be as fafely admimftefd to a Gouty (re¬ gard being had to his particular Conftitution)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
