A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the the same causes. What those causes are; and a rational and natural method of cure proposed. Addressed to all invalids / by William Cadogan.

  • Cadogan, William, 1711-1797
Date:
M.DCC.LXXII
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Credit: A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the the same causes. What those causes are; and a rational and natural method of cure proposed. Addressed to all invalids / by William Cadogan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' l * take upon me to fay, that, though I firmly be*- lieve health may be reftored in moft cafes that are not abfolutely mortal, I am very fure that no invalid was ever made a healthy man by the mere power of medicine. If this be the cafe, how muft the initiated, according as their hu- manity is touched, either laugh at or pity the poor foolifh world, furrendering at difcretion to the moft ignorant of quacks, pretending to in¬ fallible remedies which are not in nature. But what is ftill more ridiculous, the patients them- felves are often fo afhamed to own they have been deluded, that they favour the cheat, by pretending to relief which they never felt. I have collected a few materials for this work, which I intend to put in order, as foon as I can find time and induftry enough to fet about it in earneft; and if I can finifh it to my own fatisfadlion, perhaps I may fome time or other trouble the world with it. At pre- fent I think myfelf particularly called upon to fay fomething of the gout, as that difeafe was to make a confiderable part of my plan j and, as I fee now fo many, and hear of more, who are throwing away, not only their money very foolifhly, but, as I verily believe, the future