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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    years: I fay, if I may rely upon all this, I may with great fafety pronounce and promife that the plan here recommended, aflifted at firft with all the collateral aids of medicine peculiar to each cafe, correding many an un¬ toward concomitant fymptom, purfued with refolution and patience, will certainly procure to others the fame benefits I received from it, and cure every curable difeafe. If this be thought too much to promife, I beg it may be confidered, that a life of bad habits produces all thefe difeafes: nothing therefore fo likely as good ones long continued to reftore or pre¬ fer ve health. What can the beft phyfician do more than difeover and point out to his patients the real caufes of their difeafes? You will fay, he muft find a remedy: this he wdll do for you alfo as long as he can. But I will tell you a fecret: his remedies are chiefly evacuations j and as long as your body can bear fcouring and cleanfing,^ he • * Paracelfus was a good chemift, but a miferable phyfiGian: he invented that medicine which he moft ridiculoufly called Elixir proprletatis \ and from it’s effi¬ cacy, fot as he was, promifed himfclf the years of Me- thufalena.