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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    eilfes are unavoidably peculiar to each^ infomuch that it is impojfible to groiv old without Jicknefs I ef fome kind^ or other'^* There is certainly a ficfficient foundation in nature to fupport Juch cpinion'f. Not to enumerate others^ a janguiney a hiliouSy and a phlegmatic temperamenty are moll undoubtedly to be met with. The frjl is readily difcoverable on view, and is more peculiarly expofed to the attacks of PLEURISIES, PERIPxNEUMONIES, and INFLAM¬ MATORY FEVERS in general, but the two latter are not fo eahly diflinguifhed. Tho^ gen¬ tlemen of education, who have been pro¬ perly initiated into the art of phyfic, cannot but know this already, I ihall take the liberty, for the benefit of readers of com¬ mon capacity, to obferve, that a hot and dry habit of body ; a black hair; a fzvarthy coun- tenanccy of the Creolean huey are the principal iigns that indicate a bilious temperament, and an alkalefcent difpofition in the blood, A coiiflitution of this fort muft lie more open, than others, to bilious cholics, BILIOUS FEVERS, and ail diforders, that owe their origin to a redundant bile. On the other 1