A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same causes. What those causes are, and a rational and natural method of cure proposed : addressed to all invalids / by William Cadogan.

  • Cadogan, William, 1711-1797
Date:
1772
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Credit: A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same causes. What those causes are, and a rational and natural method of cure proposed : addressed to all invalids / by William Cadogan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 27 ] will fay, he mud find a remedy : this he will do for you alfo as long as he can. But I will tell you a fecret : his remedies’ are chiefly evacuations ; and as long as your body can bear fcouring and cleanfing* he will do you feme temporary, appa¬ rent fer vice ; but when it begins to w'ear out, his remedies will anfwcr no longer- you mud try better methods • you mud not repeat the. caufe fo often ; for he can¬ not for ever build up as fad as you can pull down. In diort, you mud reformi your life,, and-change ail your bad habits- for good ones ; and if you have patience to wait the flow operations of nature pro¬ perly affided, you will have no reafon tO) regret your former, luxuries.. Paracelfiis was a goad cliemill;, but a miferaMe:- pbyiician : he invented that medicine which he mofl; ridiculoufi/ called Elixir proprietatis i and from its. efficacy, fot as he w^as, promifed himfelf the years of Melhufalem. At firft it did wonders, fcoured and carried off all his crapulary indigeftions, and; kept him fome time in health and fpirils ; but trul- ing to it too long, and repeating it too often, it not only loft all its powder of doing good, but hurt, him greatly, and he died I think at fix-and-thirty,, jro-twlthilanding his Elixir. K- We