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A42181
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Arthritology, or, A discourse of the gout written by John Groenevelt.
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Groeneveld, Joannes, 1647-1710?
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1691
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against its running into the joynts Now this evacuation is made by vomits and sweats Vomits and purges may either follow blood-letting or they may serve instead of it without any previous preparatives or alterations Diureticks and sudorificks do very often give much relief the reason is because nothing in a manner besides are so able to extirpate the very root of the disease that is the salt and tartar for we have known several who have been recovered by virtue of these taken either separately or together such as are antimonial medicines antimonium diaphoreticum Cinnabar of Antimony c. Volatil Salts as volatil Salt of harts-horn greater burdock-root a decoction of germander and several things called antipodagricks To remove the humor when it is fallen upon the joynt there is a necessity for discutients wherewith sometimes somthing of a repellent is to be mixt Fat and oily things are carefully to be avoided whereby the pores are shut up Remedies composed of salts either fixt or volatil are the safest of all the reason is because they vehemently discuss the impacted humors and corroborate the weakned parts There are some also who use to apply spirit of salt mixt or allay'd with some other Liquor In the mean time we must attend with our utmost diligence and caution to things which either relieve or do prejudice because the salt humors may be various and may be mixt with various ichors If the matter when the thinner parts are discussed do congele and degenerate into chalky knots stronger emollients together with discutients are convenient such as gum Ammoniack and several sorts of gums to which if the node gives not way the skin must be broke and the chalky stones taken out As to the diet in the fit it must be altogether spare and thin small wine may be drunk moderately sharp and salt food must wholly be avoided the cold air is to be kept off and sweating must be indulged A Pindarick ODE On the Discourse of the Gout O GOUT thou cruel Jaylor of Mankind That fetter'st All Both Great and Small Of every kind O thou tormenting Gout the worst of things Thou spar'st no Schollar of the Gown Nor any Artist of the Town Thou tyrannizest over Kings Other Diseases in respect of Thee Arc health and rest thou' rt pain and misery Thou art the King of Terrors in thy strife A living Death and yet a dying Life Pandora's Box no Fable is but true For why 't is plainly verified in you From these great Evils when thou sets us free Greenfield thou shalt our guardian-Guardian-Angel be Sic Cecinit F. F. T. A Copy of a Letter Huntington Octob. 5. 1960. Honoured Doctor SIR AFter I had made use of your directions I thought fit to give you an account thereof I bless God I am well rid of my pain so that I am able to do any thing about the House to the admiration of all my Neighbours I could not have made a bed within this three months if I might have had the wait of it in gold to have done it my pains were so great and my strength so little in my joynts c. which is all from your Servant who shall ever own you for my Doctor and Restorer of my health under God Catherine Ashton Another Bellow near Alford March 20. 1690 1. Worthy SIR YOur medicines though not so timely brought by the Carrier yet came to my hands at last I consulted Dr. Gibbons my Friend at Oxford who is against violent precipitating medicines for fear they should wake as be calls it the sleeping Lion Now the case of this Gentleman who writes this Letter to the Author of this Treatise was the Gout and Stone in the Kidneys the Doctor 's speech relates to the latter I like your medicines well because they prevent the Gout and encrease Vrine gently c. Your affectionate Friend and Servant John Morrel. FINIS Post-script SEveral Persons having applyed themselves to the Author since this Treatise was made public enquiring about the Success of the Author's Method he has thought it not amiss for their convenience and ease to himself to publish the Names and places of Abode of some of those he hath cured of the Gout that so any that are inquisitive may receive a further satisfaction and doth not doubt but they will be convinced that what he has asserted is not meerly rational but verified by Practise Frances Stracy at the Corner House of Cole-Stairs in Shadwel who keeps a Slopshop says That some Years ago she her self was violently seized with the Gout over all her Limbs so that she could not stir her self without Crutches was raised and perfectly cured by Dr. Greenfield and that she hath not had ever since the least sign of any relapse Mrs. Law in Petty-Coat-Lane in Cobb's Yard says That she her self was in all her Limbs full of the Gout insomuch that her Husband expected no Cure but that she should have been always lame and gone on Crutches that she could not help her self and was perfectly cured by Dr. Greenfield about a Year ago taking now and then something still from the Doctor to prevent a relapse Captain Webber in Foxes-Lane in Shadwel The Wife and Daughter relate That last May was a Twelve-month the Captain had the Gout in great extremity and was cured by Dr. Greenfield even to a Miracle and under God cannot deny to give the Doctor the Honour of it for since he hath not perceived the least Relapse Mrs. De Vlieger says That her Husband in St Martins Le Grand in the new Rents against the Coffee-House was last Winter very much afflicted with the Gout and that under God he was raised by Dr. Greenfield and has kept well ever since That the Doctor still followed him with Medicines to prevent a Relapse Sir John Matthew in Winchester-street and Sir Robert Holmes Men of great Note and Eminency having made use of the Author's Prescriptions and Medicaments have found them very effectual giving much ease and benefit in a little time their Fits being quite removed their Lamenesses much abated in respect of what they used to be and went about with more strength whereas they used to be long laid up and not able to stir Mr. John Mulder in Goldstone Square in White-Chappel Mrs. Webb in St. Olaves-street against Barnaby-street were also lately both cured of the Gout by the Author and continue well Mr. How a Confectioner in Red-Cross-street at the Rose and Crown and Mr. Sturt a Mercer in West-Smithfield the corner of Cloth-Fair both give an Honourable Account of what they have received by the Author of this Treatise The Author has made a beginning with Captain Edward Bartelet who has lost sixty Ounces of Blood in one day and is now very lame having a Fit of the Gout upon him The Reader may enquire about the Author's Proceedings and Success He lives on Stepney-Causey He began his Course the 18th of August 1691. Thus Mrs. Harrison has also begun being the Wife of Ralph Harrison being under the same Circumstances Living in Sheeles near Newcastle From my House in Throgmorton-street the next Door but one to Broad-street FINIS