Volume 1

Observations on Dr. Cadogan's dissertation on the gout and all chronic diseases / [William Falconer].

  • Falconer, William, 1744-1824
Date:
[1772]
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Credit: Observations on Dr. Cadogan's dissertation on the gout and all chronic diseases / [William Falconer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . ( 12 ) experience contradidts. That the caufes he i affigns for diforders, viz. intemperance, indo¬ lence, and vexation* produce many diforders, and aggravate all, has been never doubted ; but I am well fatisfied that it is equally true, that difeafes are incident to human nature, and that any' medicine or mode of living, that fliould promife to keep us cer¬ tainly free from diforder, would be as little to be confided in as one that was to promife immortality itfelf. Nor is this any reflec¬ tion on our nature. Imperfection in health, body, and mind, is a charadteriftic of hu¬ man nature. And furely it cannot be thought irrational to fuppofe, that as no means can prolong life beyond a certain period, that none can obviate the previous figns of its tendency to diiTolution. Various methods of life are the caufes of various diforders5 but none has been as yet difcovered that will effedtually preferve us from any. Na¬ tions have varied greatly in their manner of O J living, yet it does not feern to have had in Oy J general * Page i6.