A treatise on the gout : containing the opinions of the most celebrated ancient and modern physicians on that diseases and observations on the eau medicinale / by John Ring.

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A treatise on the gout : containing the opinions of the most celebrated ancient and modern physicians on that diseases and observations on the eau medicinale / by John Ring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    man may remove the fit; but it is only in the power of the patient himself to prevent its return. One great impediment to the cure of the gout is, that it principally attacks the higher orders of the community: arising from indo- lence, intemperance, violent affections of the mind, or an inordinate indulgence of sensual gratifications. Those who have been ac- customed to live in a state of ease and afflu- ence, and to be pampered with every kind of luxury, are not the persons who will readily submit to strict discipline and controul, to severe privations, or to the constant and regu- lar exercise, which the radical cure of such a stubborn complaint indispensably requires. Even in the time of the paroxysm, instead of meeting with implicit obedience, or at least some degree of deference, as in other mala- dies, the physician has almost insuperable difficulties to contend with. Gouty subjects are in general, choleric and irascible. Hoflk man and Van Swieten relate cases, in which a fit was brought on by a sudden gust of passion; Coelius A urelian us observes that gouty people are querulous and irritable; and Syden- ham, who had the distemper thirty-four years,