A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same causes / By William Cadogen.

  • Cadogan, William, 1711-1797.
Date:
1771
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Credit: A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same causes / By William Cadogen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ,6 ] future health of their lives alfo, in hopes of a medical cure for it, to (hev/ that fuch hopes are chimerical, and contradictory to every idea of true philofophy and common fenfe. r (hall therefore take a few extracts from this general plan, fufficient to (hew the real original caufes of all chronic difeafcs; which, though they have been multiplied without end, and numberlefs caufes been afligned them, are certainly not many^ and their firft caufes very few, I think they may very fairly be reduced to tbefe three: Indolence, Intemperance, and Vexation. From one or more of thefe three caufes, I have undertaken to prove that all or moft chronic difeafes are produced • for different dif- eafes may have the fame original caufe, the difference proceeding from the various degrees of ftrength and vigor in bodies; fo that what would be gout in one, in another might be rheumatifm, ftone, colic, jaundice, palfy, &c. The gout-is manifeftly, and I think confeffed- ly, a difeafe of the bed conflitution, and mayi therefore fairly ffand as a reprefentative of all the red: as fuch I (hall condder it for the prefent.