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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    [ *9 ] proportion will be found at lead: a hundred to one againft that opinion. And furely I have a greater right from all thefe inftances to fay that it is not hereditary, than they have from a few to contend that it is. What is all this, but to pronounce a difeafe hereditary, and prove it by faying that it is fometimes fo, but oftener not fo ? Can there be a greater ab~ furdity ? Some men obferving, in the circle of their acquaintance, the children of gouty parents affli&ed with the gout, and often very early in life, though they are what they call tem¬ perate, conclude, not unnaturally, that the difeafe muft be parental, and unavoidably transfufed into their conftitutions. If this were the cafe, it muft be for ever incurable, and the fins of the father vifited upon the children not only of three or four but endlefs genera¬ tions to come. * Difeafes really hereditary, I fear, are never cured by any art or method whatever, as is but too true in the cafes of fcrophula and madnefs, and difeafes of taint or infection, and male formation. But here lies the error, their idea of temperance is by no means juft * : for fome men require a * See Chapter of Intemperance, p. 40.