A full and plain account of the gout; from whence will be clearly seen, the folly, or the Baseness, of all pretenders to the cure of it: In which every thing Material by the Best Writers on That Subject is taken notice of; and accompanied with some new and Important instructions for its relief, which the Author's Experience in the Gout above Thirty Years hath induced him to impart / by Ferdinando Warner.

  • Ferdinando Warner
Date:
1768
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Credit: A full and plain account of the gout; from whence will be clearly seen, the folly, or the Baseness, of all pretenders to the cure of it: In which every thing Material by the Best Writers on That Subject is taken notice of; and accompanied with some new and Important instructions for its relief, which the Author's Experience in the Gout above Thirty Years hath induced him to impart / by Ferdinando Warner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is one cafe indeed, and a very important one, which doth not feldotn happen, that of wanting the Gout as the moft effectual remedy for other ills much worfe than its own-—and many fuch there are—; in which it was impoffible to give diredlions that would effectually fucceed, without knowing the age, the conftitution, the particular malady, the way of living, and other circumftances of the patient j and therefore the advice of a phyfician is abfolutely necelfary. In the numerous cafes of an irregular Gout, to which I give the name of the Gout Misplaced, very accurately diftinguifhed and defcribed here from Musgrave, the patient muft procure the Left affiftance that he can get. For though to thefe inftrucfions I could have added prefcriptions alfo in the feveral cafes from the fame able hand, yet as I thought it very probable that many people would be tampering with themfelves, with- ornament of England, and the Apollo of the art; whom I never confider, but my mind prefents me with the genuine pi£ture of an Hyppocratic phyfician, and to whom phyfick is fo much indebted, that all I can fay will fall fhort of his merit.'” In Orat. de commende ftud. Hip. out
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