An answer to the letter addressed by Francis Riollay, physician of Newbury, to Dr. Hardy, on the hints given concerning the origin of the gout, in his publication on the colic of Devon : in which the several objections made by Dr. Riollay are considered, and the probability that the gout originates from the action of mineral substances, especially those conveyed into the human system by the medium of adulterated wines, is more fully insisted on / by James Hardy.

  • Hardy, James, -1805.
Date:
1780
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Credit: An answer to the letter addressed by Francis Riollay, physician of Newbury, to Dr. Hardy, on the hints given concerning the origin of the gout, in his publication on the colic of Devon : in which the several objections made by Dr. Riollay are considered, and the probability that the gout originates from the action of mineral substances, especially those conveyed into the human system by the medium of adulterated wines, is more fully insisted on / by James Hardy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ANSWER T O bn RIOLLAY's LETTER, S I R, T H A V E perufed the letter you was pleafed to addrefs me, on the hints given ** concerning the origin of the gout in the Colic of Devon; and confider myfelf obliged by the opinion you exprefs, that fo much as relates to the origin of the colic of Poitou, Devon, &c. 6cc. appears in your judgment fatisfaaory and worthy of notice. have the pleafure to think that the caufes there afllgned are ftriftly true; and, B