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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![[ 4« ] Mineral, and Cinnabar of Antimony: In all which the Mercury is fo bridl'd up by the Sul¬ phur, that none of their fenfible Operations and Appearances are felt, while they produce the moft wonderful Changes on animal Bodies* I cannot pafs over oSSthiops Mineral without prefling its more univerfal Ufe than, for ought I know, it has yet had in common Pra&ice. It is one of the moft certain and univerfal Al¬ teratives, if dos'd fufficiently, and long enough perfifted in, of all the cDifpenfatory. It radi¬ cally extirpates the Itch, the Piles, fcorbu- tick and lcrophulous Ulcers 5 all cutaneous Foulneftes 5 all Inflammations and Fluxions of the Eyes 5 all internal Ulcers, Rhcumatifms, white Swellings 5 lharp Humours in the Sto¬ mach and Guts, and almoft all Diftempers arifing from ftzy juices. I fay, it cures thefe, if Art can do it 5 for lorne of thefe (like here¬ ditary Gouts) are fo tranfubftantiated into the Solids, that nothing but a new Conformation of Parts can cure them. It may be given al¬ moft to half an Ounce a Day, efpecially with interfpers'd Mercurial Purges, without Trou¬ ble, or any fenfible Operation, and continu'd for a Twelve-month, if one pleafes. The fi¬ nd! Sulphur, and fitteft to make <^/Ethiops of, is common Sulphur powder'd, and boiled feven or eight times in Spring Water, whereby it be¬ comes as light on the Stomach as prepared Pearl, and as effe&ual in the Cafes mention¬ ed, as the celebrated Sulphur of Aix la Chd- pelle](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
