The honour of the gout, or, A rational discourse, demonstrating, that the gout is one of the greatest blessings which can befal mortal man : that all gentlemen who are weary of it, are their own enemies: that those practitioners who offer at the cure, are the vainest and most mischievous cheats in nature. By way of letter to an eminent citizen, wrote in the heat of a violent paroxysm, and now publish'd for the common good / by Philander Misaurus.

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Credit: The honour of the gout, or, A rational discourse, demonstrating, that the gout is one of the greatest blessings which can befal mortal man : that all gentlemen who are weary of it, are their own enemies: that those practitioners who offer at the cure, are the vainest and most mischievous cheats in nature. By way of letter to an eminent citizen, wrote in the heat of a violent paroxysm, and now publish'd for the common good / by Philander Misaurus. Source: Wellcome Collection.