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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    ftere, in that date to be carried into the blood, there to produce every kind of difeafe. What¬ ever therefore the advocates for a little wine every day may think, or argue in favor of it; they are mod undoubtedly in a very great error, and it were certainly much better and fafer to drink a bottle and get a little merry once a week, drinking water only or fmall beer at all other times: in which interval nature might totally fubdue it, and recover entirely. Water is the only liquor nature knows of or has pro¬ vided for all animals; and whatever nature gives us, we may depend upon it, is fafed and bed for us. Accordingly we fee that when we have committed any exceffes or midakes of any kind, and fuffer from them, it is water that relieves. Hence the chief good of Bath, Spa, and many other medicinal waters, efpe- cially to hard drinkers. It is the element that dilutes and carries off crudities and indi- gedions, &c. the mineral virtues they con¬ tain may make them tolerable to the domach in their padage, but do, as I believe, little more in the body: it is the water that cures. Wine, if it be not one of our own inventions, was given us as a cordial in ficknefs, wearinefs, forrow, and old age, and a mod falutarv charm it would be for mod of thefe evils, did