The extraordinary case, and perfect cure, of the gout, by the use of hemlock and wolfsbane, as related by the patient Mons. l'Abbé Mann ... / Written by the Abbé himself in French. With a translation by Philip Thicknesse.

  • Mann, Théodore Augustin, 1735-1809
Date:
1784
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Credit: The extraordinary case, and perfect cure, of the gout, by the use of hemlock and wolfsbane, as related by the patient Mons. l'Abbé Mann ... / Written by the Abbé himself in French. With a translation by Philip Thicknesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the continent, where he is ad¬ mired by all men of fenfe and litera¬ ture, who have read his writings; and beloved by all thofe who know him perfonally, for his candour, philan¬ thropy, and univerfal benevolence. But it would be abfurd in me to at- / tempt making this refpectable gen¬ tleman as v/ell known to his own countrymen, as he is to our conti¬ nental neighbours, by any words I could make ufe of, when I have be¬ fore me a letter which he wrote to me in ccnfequence of a finiffer trans¬ action at BrufTels, which deprived me, lor many months, while I reiid'ed there, of his edifying, infir uctiye, and entertaining converfation. There¬ fore, after faying, that Abbe Mann was prior of the Chartreux convent at Nieuport, and that he is now a member