An answer to the letter addressed by Francis Riollay, physician of Newbury, to Dr. Hardy, on the hints given concerning the origin of the gout, in his publication on the colic of Devon : in which the several objections made by Dr. Riollay are considered, and the probability that the gout originates from the action of mineral substances, especially those conveyed into the human system by the medium of adulterated wines, is more fully insisted on / by James Hardy.

  • Hardy, James, -1805.
Date:
1780
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Credit: An answer to the letter addressed by Francis Riollay, physician of Newbury, to Dr. Hardy, on the hints given concerning the origin of the gout, in his publication on the colic of Devon : in which the several objections made by Dr. Riollay are considered, and the probability that the gout originates from the action of mineral substances, especially those conveyed into the human system by the medium of adulterated wines, is more fully insisted on / by James Hardy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    «f it than others; proceeding from fome peculiarity of habit, general or topical; *' by the latter I mean fome peculiar ft ate of the nerves of the bowels, by which they are lefs apt to be difturbed or afFe6led by fuch medicines J.*' adly. There is an aim oft infinite variety in the fymptoms produced from the a61:ion of mineral fubftances, conveyed into the human body, by the fame medium, though they moftly belong to the nervous tribe. Thus Zeller, who was well acquainted with the effefls refulting from wines adulterated, fays, ** by the moft execrable means of litharge, or fugar of lead, (the Germans) render four, unripe wines, palatable and fweet; and they even make thofe wines higher flavoured by the fraudulent fweet- nefs: the moft ufual fymptoms produced *' from thefe wines were, a fpafmodic colic, X Med, Commentaries, N°. ix. p. 77. c