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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    P R E F A C E. TO enjoy good health is better than to command the world, fays a celebrated brated pradical philofopher*, who under- ftood the life and value of life and health better than moft men; for in exile, with a fmall income, and no very good confti- tution, he cultivated an uncommon length of days into a rational feries of pleafures ; and what is much more, an uninterrupted courfe of happinefs. Bur, as far as I qan find, he was almoft the only man that did fo. The generality of men feem to me not to bellow a thought upon either, till it be too late to reap the benefit of their conviction ; fo that health, like time, be¬ comes valuable only v^hen it is loft ; and we can no longer think of it but with re- trofpeCl and regret. « ♦ St. Evermond; That