An historical, critical and practical treatise of the gout, : shewing, not only the uncertainty, but danger and presumption of all philosophical systems and hypotheses in physick. As also, what a physician ought to know, in regard to those diseases which precede the gout; are complicated with it; and lastly, in what diseases the gout terminates from improper treatment. With a dedicatory discourse concerning the present state of physick in Europe. / By Thomas Thompson, M.D., sometime prosyndick of the University of Padua.

  • Thompson, Thomas, -1763.
Date:
MDCCXL. [1740]
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Credit: An historical, critical and practical treatise of the gout, : shewing, not only the uncertainty, but danger and presumption of all philosophical systems and hypotheses in physick. As also, what a physician ought to know, in regard to those diseases which precede the gout; are complicated with it; and lastly, in what diseases the gout terminates from improper treatment. With a dedicatory discourse concerning the present state of physick in Europe. / By Thomas Thompson, M.D., sometime prosyndick of the University of Padua. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an Inftance of what I affert may be feen in one of the greateft Phyficians of this Age, and of our Country, to whofe emi¬ nent s vf • U kaline Salts, and promote their Difcharge through fome of the Emun£tories. And laftly, by their Smoothnefs and Slipperi- nefs they fupple, relax, and take off the too great Tenfion and Stiffnefs of the Fibres; upon all which Accounts they are excellently good. Langriftis Modern Practice of Phy~ fic, p. 150,1 151. The widening the Capacities of the fmall Veffels. Labour or Exercife affifts the Gouty three different Ways : Fir ft, As it increafes the * Motion of the Parts of the Fluids among themfelves; fo that their Salts, by their ftriking one againft another, are broken and made lefs, that they may pais more readily through the fmall Veffels. Secondly, As it adds a new and foreign Force to the Blood, and thereby promotes its Circulation from the Heart through the fmall Veffels; driving fome of the groffer Parts of the Fluids through them, which in the ordinary Courfe of the Circulation would not pafs fo freely; and thereby opening their Obftruftions, and enlarging their Capacities. Thirdly, As it increafes the natu¬ ral Perfpiration ; the Action of the Mufcles in Labour and Ex- ercifes, and the Spring of the Solids by their multiply’d Ef¬ forts, fqueezing the Strainers of all their Contents. But to make Labour and Exercife as ufeful as may be, two Cautions muft be added to them : Firft, That they be not too violent, in