Advice to gouty persons / by Richard Kentish.

  • Kentish, Richard, 1730-1792.
Date:
1791
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    powerful ftimulus to remove an ague fit, fo it feems to be in moil cafes too weak a ftimulus for the removal of a gouty pa- roxyfrn. I would however advife its ufe, conjoined to other remedies, and particu¬ larly in the intervals of a paroxyfm. I agree entirely with a worthy divine, who, to the honour of himfelf, and the dilgrace of phyfic, has written the beft book now extant on the Gout. te As indigeftion, c? (fays Dr. Warner) hath been proved to (€ be the primary caufe of the Gout, the “ firft direction of medicine, it is natural to require, ihouid be to ftrengthen the *c digeftive powers. To this purpofe, I <c believe there is nothing more efficacious *c within the compafs of phyfic, than a <c frequent and almoft daily ufe of the tinc- ture of the bark, and of the elixir of “ vitriol, already mentioned at the declen- fion of the fit.” * * See a Treatife on the Gout, by Fred. Warner, LL. D:« ( A large