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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    « was the real avithor of all or mofl; of his own miferies. Whatever doubts may be er/ertained of moral evils, the natural, for the mod parr, fuch as bodily infirmi|.y, ficknefs and pain, all that clafs of ccniplaipats which the learned call chronic clifeafcs, we inod undoubtedly bring upon ourfelves by our own indulgences^ excelTes, or midaken habits of life, or by fuffering our ilhcondudt-* ed padions to lead us adray or didurb our peace of mind. W^hatever notions men have been taught or have received of other cauf- es, fuch as accidental colds, or particu¬ larities of conditution, this .or that thing difagreeing or furfeiting, &c. thefe are too trifling to produce difeafes that commonly . lad for life : there mud be tbmething more fubdantial, fomething mure condant and permanent in our daily habits, to produce fiich inveterate evils. Though if you read authors .or confulc prad'citioners, wl.at do you find, but that you have, taken cold (though you know not how), or that your complaints are gouty, rheumatic, bilious, nervous, &rc. ? • words* that fttisfy, though they give no kind of idea, and feem to have