The Attila of the gout, being a peculiar account of that distemper ... and an infallible method to cure it ... / By John Marten.

  • Marten, John, -1737
Date:
1713
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Credit: The Attila of the gout, being a peculiar account of that distemper ... and an infallible method to cure it ... / By John Marten. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hot Caufe accompanies the other, and conclude that the Gout has its Original from Phlegm inixt with Choler. Lu- dovicus Mercatus again will not allow any viti- ous Humours (tho’ they The Attila which'being Salts con¬ trary and oppofite to the Synovia, when they are generated in Men, make it boil over. The ingenious Dr. Willi* is of Opinion, that to caufe _ ____ the Gout, a vitriolick Ihould abound) fuffici- Matter is brought from entto produce the Gout \ I the Nerves, which meet- unlefs the fame be like- ing with fome faline wife crude and indigeft- fix’d Particles of the ed. Cardanus holds the j Blood, they both boil Caufe of the Gout to be I up and grow hot toge- a Spirit, and Senntrtus 1 ther, and afterwards will have it to be a fait, turn to a Coagulum or lharp fubtile Humour, I Curd : To prove this, fuch a one as for the I he gives a known ln- greateft part refembles I ftance of Spirit of Vitriol Salt Spirits. I poured to Oil of Tartar Many of the Chy-Imrd why (fays he) may rni-fts, as Paractlfus, Pe-1 we not think that in the trus Sever inus^audothers, J Fits of the Gout, theie have laid all the Fault is fomething like it ? upon the Synovia *, by I viz.* That from the which Term they mean j fighting and mutual the Mucilage that is eve- Conflict of the Liquors, ry where tranfcolated I which are of a divet fe through the Glands, to I faline Nature, the Ner- lubricate the Parts, and j vous Fibres are prick’d more especially the and provok’d, and at Joints.The Difeafe (they fay) is a Mineral Liquor, or a fou;r auftere Juice, length from the various Coagulations of either Juice, that there is fuch as are Allwn, Vi- fometimes heaped toge- triol, Vim gar, Barberries, j ther in the affected Ataxia, and the like y Places .a Calculous 91 Stony Matter. Dr.