A treatise of the gout : or, a serious answer, etc / [John Marten].

  • Marten, John, -1737
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1738
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Credit: A treatise of the gout : or, a serious answer, etc / [John Marten]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who would think otherwife, but that by long Ex¬ perience in Curing of it, they had found an effen- tial Difference between the feveral Species, and had particular Remedies ready for every one of them ? letfarfr^p this, Phyficians in general agree, that all the above-mentioned Species require the fame Method of Cure 3 and whoever confults the mo ft noted among them, will find, that concerning the internal and immediate Caufe, as well as the Cure of this Difeafe, nothing has been hitherto writ with any Certainty ; that very few have given us a bet¬ ter Hiftory of it than every Patient can furnifh us with * and in fhort, that in treating of the Gout, • none have obferv'd any Exadtnefs but in the moft immaterial Part, only fit for trifling Grammarians to meddle with. From what I have faid, the Reader may per¬ haps imagine, that I pretend to fome new Syftem, by which the Phenomena of this Diflemper will be better folv’d than has been done hitherto , but I am fb far from breaking my Head with Novelties and Speculation, that I have long ago thought, that the Time and Pains, which fo many ingenious Men have beftowed in defending and refuting the Hypothefis already broach’d, were thrown away to very little Purpofe ; and the Reafon of my fetting forth a Zreatife of this Nature, is wholly Practical, Some time ago, I met with a Medicine or two, that to three or four Patients afflidfed withmofl violent Pains of the Gout, gave immediate Eafe. Not da¬ ring to hope for fuch a good Fortune as all the World would efteem the Poffeffion of fuch a pair of Medicines, I at firft afcribed thofe SuccefTes, either to Chance, or feme unknown Accident, but fince that, I have been convinced by fe many Tri¬ als of the real Worth of them, that I fhould think my felf injurious to the Publick, not to acquaint them with the fiupendious Effeffis I have feen from B 2 theiH