A treatise on the regular, irregular, atonic, and flying gout containing many new reflections on its causes, and management ... With the excellent effects of the muriatic acid in the relief of that disorder / By William Rowley.

  • Rowley, William, 1742-1806
Date:
1792
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Credit: A treatise on the regular, irregular, atonic, and flying gout containing many new reflections on its causes, and management ... With the excellent effects of the muriatic acid in the relief of that disorder / By William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    X INTRODUCTION. The diforder called Arthritis^ or Gout, has been the torment of the affluent in all ages: phyficians, regular and irregular, vifionifts, and projectors, have delivered a multiplicity of doCtrines and modes of treatment; but with what fuccefs, let the reflecting phyfician and the afflICled deter¬ mine. Medicine has made little or no pro- grefs towards a radical cure for this invete¬ rate diftemper: nor has any confiflient modes of treatment been eftablifhed to al¬ leviate with fafety the fymptoms, as they occur in different conftitutions. If a fur- vey be made of the numerous writings on the gout, it would be thought, the fubjeCt ^ * was exhaufted: if their utility be fcruti- nifed, it will be found that little has been faid to anfwer any very important purpofes In the cure. The reafons are, in fome a 2 meafure. I