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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    themfelves will have lefs abUity to with- Hand any future attack. Altho’ the inter¬ vals between the fits may probably be longer, yet, to the imminent danger of their lives, the onfet when renewed, will be made with redoubled fury. But fades are more powerful than words, and injiances of danger more alarmbig than harangues^ Tho’ fuch initances abound, I fhall men¬ tion one only, that fell more immediately under my own 'cognizance, of a gentleman, who had flridily confined himfelf to ^ milk- diet, .^according to Dr. Cheyne’s directions. Before he entered upon this regimen, he had lived very freely, and had ufually un¬ dergone a paroxyfm, both in the fpringj^ and in the autumn, but on his following that courfe, to his great joy, he felt no return of it, for more than a year together. But alas ! how fhort-liv’d was that joy, in the midfi; of his fecurity, the gout re¬ turned, like an incenfed enemy, mad with rage, and made dreadful reprifals on his head and ftomach ! Being alarmed by the danger he had efcaped, he fleered his courfe