An account of the discovery and operation of a new medicine for gout.

Date:
1803
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the discovery and operation of a new medicine for gout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    CURED? Of himself he is convinced that he is incompetent to an undertaking so new, and so arduous; but he has availed himself in the first instance of the assist- ance of two regular physicians, who are sufficiently respectable in the districts where they reside: and, by them encouraged to venture on this task, he does not feel him- self at liberty to shrink from what they enjoin as a reasonable duty. If he be suc- cessful—he is sure of his reward: if he fail—the consciousness of having intended w^ell shall console his disappointment. The benevolent may give him some credit: those who believe patience, and Jiannel must be the eternal alternatives in Gout, may call him a visionary. Yet from those who through his means, are relieved, with- out subsequent injury, from a single fit of that distracting malady, he shall not despair of receiving thanks. And, though he enjoy the strongest assurances that such a medicine is at length discovered B 2 and