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.

  • Philander Misaurus
Date:
1720
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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.

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    and by their furious Coriteft, caufe cruel Twitchings of your aervous Fibres ; com¬ fort your Heart, and be extreamly pleas’d. When Mafculine, Acerous Recrements fliall, with Female Tartarous Matter, mix, engender, and beget a Tophous Mafs ; when that fame Tophous Mafs fliall lodge in xht Inter no dia of your Worfliip’s Bones, entertaining you with a rending Solution of Continuity ; then let your Soul tri¬ umph : But touch not, tafte not the Cru- men-Emulgent Doctor’s Emulfions, Julips, Apozems ; nor let his Repercuffives or Re- folvents, Cataplafms and Anodynes, touch you. So let your Friend the Gout take his Courfe, and maul you foundly. O ! So eafy, fo pleas’d, fo joyous, fo happy, fo blefs’d will you be, when the Turn of Health fliall come ! Why, Sir, you 11 be in Heaven ; in Heaven, while you are on Earth ! You 11 be en¬ tirely beatify’d on this fide the Grave ; and that’s more than Solomon has arriv’d at yet, [if you can give any Credit to a Catholick Painter] for but one Half of him is glorified ; the other fries in Flames, vex’d by tormenting Devils. Like the Noble Shaftsburjj in Windfor-Hall : Be- fhrew the Painter for - - - - his Pains.