Doctor Roger's Oleum arthriticum, or specifick oil for the gout / [John Rogers].

  • Rogers, John, active 1735.
Date:
1735
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Credit: Doctor Roger's Oleum arthriticum, or specifick oil for the gout / [John Rogers]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had recourfe only to my Oils, without any o- ther adminiftration, not fo much as bleeding or purging. In lefs than a month the contufion was cured, and all its concomitant fymptoms, beyond my own imagination, and to the fur- prife of all profeffors. Dr. Stukeley was fo good as to vifit me often in this extraordinary cafe ; and obfervirtg the wonderful effe&s thefe Oils had wrought (tho* before he had no opinion of them) now thought fit to ufe them himfelf, having for many years laboured under an hereditary Gout. They anfwered perfectly to his fatisfa&ion, and he thought fit, when he went up to London in February following, to give an account of it to the Royal Society, that the publick might receive the benefit of what he judged an extraordinary and appropriate remedy. This the Do&or did per- fedly of his own motion and love to mankind ; not in the leall imparting his defign to me, nor fo much as defiring the infpe&ing of my Recipe. Since that time, having tried it again upon him¬ felf, and alfo obferving the many furprifing cures it has wrought at home, and in all parts of the kingdom, as appears weekly, by letters of Thanks to me, he thought fit to publilh an addi¬ tional treatife, Of the caufe and cure of the Gouty viz. in 1733. wherein, from carefully ob¬ ferving and reafoning on the operation of thefe Oils, he forms a new rationale of the nature of this cruel difiemper, which has hitherto bafEed all the world. He (hows, by many arguments, that the matter of the Gout is a fiery poifon,< which the blood throws off upon the extreme parts, to the oily glands of the joints, there to be extinguifhed. Hence he gathers the necef- iky of an external remedy, and that nature points our