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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![I [ ] adds to the Blood 5 rending and tearing the fined Veflels and Fibres, when the Gouty Per- ibn comes to his former Diet, and the other Circumftanccs of Living 5 and the Fluids be- come thereby loaded with their Salts, they flick more obftinately to the Joints, than if the Parts had been fubdu d and broken by re¬ gular Fits of the Gout. So that a Salivation, tho* it banifli the Fits for fome time, yet when the Blood is replcniflfld again with Gouty Salts, the Habit is reduc'd to a worfe Condi¬ tion, in. refpeft of the future Fits, than if they had never been interrupted: And, indeed, it is obfervable, that after a full, or repeated Sa¬ livations , the Man is feldom or ever the fame, as to the Quicknefs of Senfation 5 or the Ufage of the moil beautiful animal Faculties. But there is an abfolutc Neceffity of having re- courfe to Mercurial Vomits and Purges, when the Gout becomes fixt to, and permanent in a Place, as alfo when it is difperfed all over the Habit, like a Rhcumatifin. Thefe adive Me¬ dicines muft'firft render the Humours fluid, which Gum Guajac, with Diaphorctick Anti- perilfled in, will after warns carry off. I come now to confider the Gouty Perfon under two different Circumftances. Firft, under a regular Fit. And, Secondly, in the Intervals. XXVc i. On the Firft Attack of the Fit, efpeciaily while the Fever, that ufhers it in, remains, Dilution is the only Remedy. Fine, V 1 clear.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
