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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    [ lOO ] ,foir, too hard for any other. And (liould were be a particular cafe, in which feme forte ■ate violence or chance may have apparently fucceeded for a time, the return of the evil^ or change to fomething worfe, can no way be fo well guarded' againft and prevented, as by feme fuch rational and natural inflitution of life. Thus have I endeavoured to fet forth the real caufes of chronic difeafes in gene¬ ral, and the true principles of convalef- cence, health and longevity. If I have hazarded any thing new or contrary to received opinions, it has been from .a tho¬ rough convidion of its truth, however dangerous to fame and fortune ; both which I know are more eafily acquired by complying with the world, than attemp¬ ting to reform it: but it mtifl: be fome- body equally indifferent to both, as I am, who will venture to tell fuch truths as are more likely to recoil and hurt the author, than to conviirce and. conciliate the bulk of mankind. THE END.