Some observations on the origin and progress of the atrabilious constitution and gout. Chap. IV, Containing the regular, cardinal Fit / by William Grant.
- William Grant
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations on the origin and progress of the atrabilious constitution and gout. Chap. IV, Containing the regular, cardinal Fit / by William Grant. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ = ] To communicate what I know,of thra matter, fo as to be well underftood by a perfon of lefs experience than myfelf, it h neceffary that I fhould firft confider the fimple gout, in a fubje£l in - other refpe£ts healthy; on purpofe to afcertain all the fymptoms which do belong to, and are pro¬ duced by, fimple gouty matter alone, when formed,^ and floating in the confliitution, long before the formation of' a real fit: then the fymptoms, or terrentia^ which immediately precede the formed fit: and laftly, the fymptoms ‘peculiar to the real formed fit; efpecially thofe by which it is diflinguifhed from every other fpecies of the atrabilious confutation ; to which great attention mufl be paid. For the various fpecies of the atrabilious genus have many fymptoms in common, as flowing, originally, from the fame foun¬ tain ; but each has fome peculiar fymp¬ toms, by which it is diflinguifhed from all the others, and from which it -takes its proper name. In like manner, all the atrabilious difeafes require a regimen, nearly fimilar, during the interval of the fits, to alter the atrabi¬ lious conflitution which gives rife to them all; but each requires a fpecial method of cure, peculiarly adapted to the orgam on which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792277_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
