A full and plain account of the gout; from whence will be clearly seen, the folly, or the Baseness, of all pretenders to the cure of it: In which every thing Material by the Best Writers on That Subject is taken notice of; and accompanied with some new and Important instructions for its relief, which the Author's Experience in the Gout above Thirty Years hath induced him to impart / by Ferdinando Warner.

  • Warner, Ferdinando, 1703-1768.
Date:
1768
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Credit: A full and plain account of the gout; from whence will be clearly seen, the folly, or the Baseness, of all pretenders to the cure of it: In which every thing Material by the Best Writers on That Subject is taken notice of; and accompanied with some new and Important instructions for its relief, which the Author's Experience in the Gout above Thirty Years hath induced him to impart / by Ferdinando Warner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which I have been fatally wrecked myfelf: efpecially as I was morally fure that an application to this work would coft me at lead One fit of the Gout ; and it fell out accordingly. It is certain however, that befide much experience in myfelf and others, phyficians cannot allow fo much time in the fludy of any One diforder, as I have given upon the Gout. Neither can any phyfician, who is not himfelf a Gouty man, be fo well acquainted with the little circumftances in the progrefs of this difiemper, which are neceffary to be known, as an attentive arthritick who is not a phyfician : for almofc every fit produces fomething new for his obfervation. But to give no room for fufpicion of any pertnefs, I will add the following faffs. Sir Edward Hulse, an excellent phyfician, made no fcruple to own ingenuoufly that the Gout was a diforder he could not underhand; and that he wilhed never to be called in to advife upon it: And once when- my Gout was mifplaced upon the pleura, and the apothecary being alarmed at my own treatment of it, hurried away without my knowledge to Ds. Mead B 4 (with