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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    THE PREFACE. N lefts than fix Month Time, a Thoufand of the Fir ft Edition of this Treatife were fold off) which gave me Reafion to think it had not been unacceptable tq the Publick. UP ON Reviewing it for a Second Jm- preftftion, Ifounds that feveral Things for brevity fake had been omitted and cut Jhort, which I thought might not only be as entertaining as any of the reft, but likewifie explain and elucidate what had been Writ already. For that Reafion I encreas'd the Bulk of it, refiolving never to add any more, how many Times fioever it might be re-printed. IN the Third I kept to my Word, adding nothing, fiave only fiome further Teftimonies of the EftfeCts of the Medicine recommended, for the better Satisfaction of fhofie that might be doubtful; but in this Fourth, I Jaw Can fie to make fiome Variations through the whole. AND notwithftanding the Medicine continues to give me every Day frefth Proofs of its being a real Specihck in the Gout, and has hitherto not once fail d of giving the pro¬ mis'd Relief where it has'been duely taken, it yet wants no Oppofition, and I know fever al who, tho' they were Eye- WitneJJes of the unjpeakable Benefit which others receiv'd from it, have yet remain'd mmafonably ficrupulous, and de¬ clin'd the taking of it them [elves, becaufe the Learned fay, there is no finch Remefty known, and thap it is impojjible to A % giv*