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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    more juftly founded. And as bankrupts, un¬ done by idlenefs and extravagance, for ever plead Ioffes and misfortunes; fo do we in¬ heritance, to exculpate ourfelves. It is natural enough for thofe who believe the gout hereditary to think it alfo periodical, as if fomething innate and inherent in our conftitutions produced it at certain times: but this is a great miftake; for, if it were periodi¬ cal, it muft be regularly fo. The only pe¬ riodical difeafe I know is the intermittent fever, which, till it be difturbed by the bark or any other febrifuge, is as regular as a good clock. The returns of the gout are always very un¬ certain, according to the quantity or quality of accumulated indigeftion within, and the ftrength of our bodies. I come now to {hew that the gout is not incurable. If by the cure of it be meant the adminiftering a pill or a powder, or medicine of any kind to do it, I fear it is and ever will be incurable. It has been long and often at¬ tempted in vain, from the origin of phyfic to this day, from the firft quack to the prefent. Indeed there is a moft glaring abfurdity at firft fight, that muft flop any man of com¬ mon