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.

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    and at length fell a martyr to his unsufferable torment, declares, that every paroxysm may as justly be denominated a fit of anger as a fit of the gout. The late Dr. Gregory has remarked, that if a physician is very rigid in his directions about regimen, he may be assured they will not be strictly followed. It is, therefore, reasonable to conclude, that when the gout is only palliated, and not totally eradicated from the constitution, the fault is not always in the practitioner, nor in the disorder; but in the patient. This malady has been the scourge of the superior classes of life; of princes and poten- tates, wits and philosophers, lawyers, phy- sicians, and divines: we may therefore con- clude, that nothing which genius could invent, or wealth purchase, has been left untried. These are great advantages, but on the other hand, there are great obstacles to encounter; prejudice and passion, custom and caprice, the force of habit and the contagion of ex- ample; folly and vice, luxury and intemper- ance, fashion and infatuation, the love of ipleasure, and the love of ease. In the happy moment of mirth and convi- b 2