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.

  • Warner, Ferdinando, 1703-1768.
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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    Efiay, p. 27. / <# [ 286 ] It hath been obferved that Small Beer doth not agree with fome Conftitutions, and fome People do not love it. Cold Wa¬ ter alone, notwithftanding the great Enco¬ miums that have been given of it, and in Other Conftitutions I believe very deferved- ly, yet in the Gouty, I efteem, with Sydenham, to be crude and pernicious $ as He had found he faid to his Coft. But there is Another Liquor, of which, from an Experience of almoft Three Years every day, I am obliged to give the higheft Cha¬ racter ; which is the Mulfum of Hippo¬ crates, or our common Cheefe Whey, made frefh every morning, and in Cold Weather drank juft warm at Dinner. The famous Hoffman hath written a Treatife on the Virtues of Whey; and Bennet fays, “ that whatever the mo ft penetrating di¬ luting Saponacious Fluid may be fuppofed to effeCt, Whey may juftly lay a claim to. Nay he queftions whether Mercury itfelf. That fubtle and powerful Fluid, be more penetrating; to which this Advantage over Mercury may be added, that being Sapo¬ nacious, after it hath penetrated into the inmoft Receffes of Nature, it is better qua-