Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gout — Constipation — Piles — Asthma — Consump- tion — Pabalysis — Epilepsy — St. Vitus' Dance- Diseases OP Women—Skin Diseases, Among the many complaints which are dependent upon the condition of the diges- tive functions more than anything else, and which are, perhaps, as much as any, capable of being successfully treated by my method, we will first mention Gout. It is useless here to attempt to describe the distressing symptoms of this disease. Some, as we know, are martyrs to gout; they may be the first in the family to have been attacked, or they may have inherited it, either with or without the family plate and estates. When a man has an attack of this most painful com- plaint, his sufferings, which are most severe, as a rule provoke no sympathy, for it seems to be a fixed idea in the