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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    Many are of Opinion, that the Humour is con¬ tain’d within the Veins and Arteries, and out of them poured forth into the Joints, Stnmrtui is one of thefe, and judg¬ ing that it muft of ne- ceffity be generated in fome Concodion of the Blood, determines it to be in the Liver and Spleen} the Sanguifica¬ tion being there hurt in its own Manner. Ano¬ ther is Adrian SfigeUus, but with this Difference, that though he acknow¬ ledges the Afflux to be made in the Veins and Arteries, he is yet un¬ willing wholly to defert the Opinion which de¬ termine that the Hu¬ mours flow from'-the Head *, wherefore he concludes, that the Flu¬ xion is both from the Head and the Liver. But no Body renders this Matter more intricate than Francifcus India , a Vercnefe Phyfician, who in his firfl: Book of the Gout, writes , that the Members that fend forth thefe Superfluities are various and many *, and efpecially the Head, the Stomach, the Inteftines, the Liver, and the Kid¬ neys , and that thofe Fluxions are indeed more efpecially from the Head and from the Brain m0 becaufe that tho5 thofe Humours draw their Original from the Inteffines and from the the Stomach and other, Members before they flow into the Joints, they firft of all afcend into the Head, and from thence are afterwards tranfmitted into the Parts lying underneath it. Tdchenius , Etmulkr , and others, trace the Original of the Acid Gouty Matter that afr fcfrs the Synovia^ from the Stomach and a de¬ praved Digeftion} but Sylvius de le Boe derives it from the Pancreas and other Glands. There are other Opi¬ nions, of which for fear of tiring my Reader, I fflall take no notice, for to relate every thing that has been faid upon this