A free and candid examination of Dr. Cadogan's Dissertation on the gout, and chronic diseases. In which are contained, some observations on the nature and effects of alkalis and acids / By William Carter, late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon.

  • Carter, W. (William)
Date:
[1772?]
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Credit: A free and candid examination of Dr. Cadogan's Dissertation on the gout, and chronic diseases. In which are contained, some observations on the nature and effects of alkalis and acids / By William Carter, late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more than momentary^'^ if ever -our natuf: powers, afTiiled by them^ are enabled to difcliarge die difeafe. That this is fometimes the cafe, no one, I prefume, will be hardy enough to deny ; and if it be admitted, it is all that I contend for. On that condition, I iliall willingly allow the DoAor’s diflindtion, fnould he pleafe to make it, between rejloring^ and efiahliffomg healthy and be ready to ac¬ knowledge, that diet, air^ and exercife^ with a due reglation of the pqjfons^ are generally necefjary to efaUip what m-edicine has re^ Jlored, I have dw^elt the longer on the lafl head^ as the learned Differtator may feem, in the' eyes of the lefs judicious, to have decried the life of all medicines whatfoever, by afferting in another place, that no invalid was ever made a healthy man hy the mere force of medi- cincf. Whatever conflruflion they may put upon the words, fuch can never be his meaning ; as in that cafe, a regular medi¬ cinal inftitution mull: be ufelefs, and unnC” ceifary. To what purpofe could it be (to * Page 4. t Page 5. ufe