Discourses on the gout, a rheumatism, and the King's Evil / [Sir Richard Blackmore].

  • Richard Blackmore
Date:
1726
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Credit: Discourses on the gout, a rheumatism, and the King's Evil / [Sir Richard Blackmore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IJhould, I acknowledge, have ta¬ ken Notice where 1 ennumerated the means of removing the Gout, that a Fright and Terror upon the fudden Apprehenfon of fome great impend¬ ing Danger, as that of drowning., falling down a high Precipice, or the real or imagined Jight of fame dread¬ ful Ob] eel, or the fudden approach of fome great Calamity, as for Infiance, a lit of the Stone, has often removed, or fufpended the Pams of the Gout; which Jhews how much this Difiemper, as well as others, depends upon the perverted State of the Spirits or ner¬ vous 'Juices: Nor is it lefs natural or reafonable, that fuch a furprizmg Dread or Honour Jhould fufpend Difeafes, when ’tis evident they fre¬ quently introduce them. How often have Convulfions, Hyfienck Fits, Jaundice, &c. been producedbygreat Fmghts ? And how often has the Small Pox
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