An Essay on the Nature and Method of Treating the Gout

Excerpt from An Essay on the Nature and Method of Treating the Gout: With Preventative Directions in the Intervals of the Paroxysms Authors with one confent, and People in general, have favoured the Opinion, that im moderate or unfeafonable Bacchus and Venus, are the only legitimate, and nectfii'aryl Pa rents of the Gout, Where it is not hereditary. The Greek Poets have -fung thus, that the Gout is the Daughter of Bacchus and Venus; that the Gout is a luxurious Goddefs, and efieemed a Hater of Poverty and poor People. Neither were 'boets, and merry Men, only of this Opinion, but even our rnof'er judiciohs Hippocrates hath aphoril'tically diétated the fame. One qf'shis'aphorifms is, that a. Youth never has the Gout before the Ufe of Venery: And another that Eunuchs are (never troubled with e'gout 5* And a third, that a Woman never has the Gout, either in Qua thitp'aen Gout, unlels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.