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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![[*3] as to any other Perfon. Wherefore, the ge¬ neral and dired Methods of relieving the Gout, / are, in the Fits, a gentle, uniform, continu'd Ferfpiration and Breathing Sweat; In the In¬ tervals, Labour or Exercife, and gentle. Sto¬ machic Purgers. XXII. The Secondary or lefs dired Me¬ thods of relieving the Gout, are principally thefetwo, Firft, Dilution, by proper Liquors. Secondly, Strengthners of the Inftruments of the Digeftion. Nothing is more likely to thin the Blood; to dilfolve and break the Salts, and keep them at a diftance from running into Clutters, than proper Diluters; as we fee in Fevers, Rheumatilms, and other inflamma¬ tory Diftempers. For this Reafon, among others, it is, that Bath and German Sfaw Waters, and all other Mineral Chalybeat Wa¬ ters; Dwarf-Elder Tea; Trifoil Tea; light, quick, Green Tea; fmall fpicy Bitters on Wa¬ ter, and fuch like, drunk freely. Blood warm, on an empty Stomach, become fo ufcful in In¬ tervals of the Gout. Water is the univerfal Diflolvent of Salts of all forts; and being re¬ plenish'd with the fpicy, bitter and adivc Parts of other Bodies, it ftrengthens the Sto¬ mach and Bowels; breaks and diflolvcs the Salts; cleanfes the infides of the VefTeis from the Foulnefs that conftantly adheres to them, and carries it out of the Body, by increas'd Pcrfpiration and Urine, XXIII,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
