A view of the nervous temperament; being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, etc / By Thomas Trotter, M.D.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1812
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Credit: A view of the nervous temperament; being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, etc / By Thomas Trotter, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $62 these diseases, which depend on a pecu- liar trait of constitution. As a habit of body once confirmed, is difficult to be changed in a grown-up person; so this knowledge teaches us to begin in infancy, with our rules for meliorating the general frame: and if we cannot entirely supplant natural infirmities, we at least lessen them. The gout is one of the most painful maladies incident to human life: and as the subjects of it are commonly. persons. of fortune, or of better condition, so a great reward has been held out to the phy- sician who shall devise a successful plan of cure. This appears to be the very reason — why more pretended remedies have been published for gout, in different ages, than for any other disease. but it has so happened that these, panacea have never come from the hands of any eminent physician; but from empirics of the worst description. The intelligent medical philosopher will always be diffident of the powers of his art, in the cure of arthritis; because he knows it to be a disease. of the original, or acquired temperament: and that though it may now and then be expelled by some -active agent, it will again recur; for the 5