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A44298	The honour of the gout: or, A rational discourse, demonstrating that the gout is one of the greatest blessings which can befal mortal man that all gentlemen who are weary of it, are their own enemies; that those pratitioners who offer at the cure, are the vainest and most mischievous cheats in nature. By way of letter to an eminent citizen, wrote in the heat of a violent paroxysm, and now published for the common good. By Philander Misiatus.	Philander Misaurus.	1699 (1699)	Wing H2598; ESTC R215301	20,867	73

was the thing to be demonstrated Having thus Sir utterly confounded your Errour my next labour shall be to instruct you in a sounder persuasion The Gout was sent in Mercy down from Heaven to lengthen wasting Life The Seat of this Friendly Daemon by whom every afflicted Man receives a thousand times more benefit than ever Socrates by his his Seat I say is in the Nervous parts he commonly visits the Internodia of the Bones of the Feet sometimes the Hip the Knee the Elbow Shoulder Wrist and Ancle But to prove its Divine Original I will proceed methodically and from his lowest Commendations ascend by six just Steps or Degrees till I have rais'd him above the Stars and enter'd him among the Celestial Spirits to whom Sir you will then be tempted to offer up your Oraisons in the prescribed Form at the end of an Old Manuscript-Missal communicated to me by a learned Antiquary a great Collector of those Rarities The Form this Blessed Gout most desirable Gout Soveraign Antidote of Murdering Maladies powerful Corrector of Intemperance deign to visit me with thy purging fires and throw off the tophous injury which I may have suffered by Wine and Wit too hard for the Vertue of a Devote upon a Holy Festival but fail not thy Humble Supplicant who needs thy Friendly Help to keep his tottering Tenement in order fail him not every Vernal and Autumnal Aequinox I know some precise Doctors are against all Invocation of Saints at present I shall not dispute with them but they must grant me That there 's more to be said in justification of such a Prayer to the Gout than can be said for the Offices directed to any other Saints not excepting the Virgin For I defier their Worshippers to prove that there has been the Tythe of so much good done by them all as I shall prove has been done by the beneficial Gout I begin at the lowest step and Note First The Gout gives a Man Pain without Danger It is possible I confess that a Sick Man if he were directly ask'd to declare his Sense of the matter might refuse to acknowledge the benefit of Pain without Danger for Sickness and Peevishness commonly go together but mind his Discourse at another time when he talks from the heart and is not upon his Guard Then O then Pain without Danger is a Blessed thing For Instance Suffering under a painful threatning Distemper What 's his first question to the Physician but this Doctor pray be plain with me and let me truly know what I am to expect don't flatter a Sick-man but tell me am I like to Recover or no That Pain you see which he suffers does not at all trouble him he 's only afraid he shall Die secure him against that Danger and all is well with him Cut Slash Burn no pain is grievous if it promise to set us out of the danger of Death When the other Doctor comes the Physician of the Soul I mean whose coming bodes no good to the Body He tells the Decumbent a long Story of the Pains and Misery of Life in order to make his nunc dimittis go down the easier but that method seldom takes for not one of a hundred is so bad but he 's content to live and put the rest to the venture The fear of Death is generally more grievous than all the cruel Pains of a wretched Life But since we must have pain while we live give me the Pain of the Gout which has no danger attending Here some malevolent Adversary may importunely object Did never any Man Die of the Gout To this I answer 1st I have not yet affirmed That the Gout can make a Man immortal though I will boldly say thus much it very often keeps a Man alive till all his Friends are weary of him But 2. Should I venture to say that the Gout has in it self the power to make a Man immortal it ought not to seem so very strange all things being considered If that be true which some Authors Write of the Noble Paracelsus He had the Secret to make a Man immortal and I would not say he lyed though himself Died about Forty for perhaps he did not like his Company but it must have been by way of his Discovery to give any Man the Gout when he pleased in that I am positive Here the Objector will scornfully put me in Mind that Gouty persons scape Death no more than other Men which is very true but that 's because Men are Fools and don 't know when they are safe they must be curing the Gout forsooth and to that end they deal with the Doctor i. e. with the Factor of Death the Emissary of Hell the Purveyor of the Grave Damn'd Alchymist good at calcining nothing but Living Bodies into Dust and Ashes Let every one bear his own burthen the Gout has nothing to do with the Carnage of the Doctor All that can be rationally said against the Gout is that it does not actually preserve Man in spight of their own Folly and the Dr's ignorance And yet there is the Right Honourable Sir R. H. the Gout is so Salutary to him that two Swiss Doctors can't dispatch him what would a certain Lord give that those two coagulating Spirits could remove his Honours Gout but say I Gout hold thy own for Earth has more need of the Cripple than Heaven of the Saint And now Sir let me tell you a Story the famous Willis shall be my Voucher who dissected the the Body of the Reverend Learned and Pious Doctor Hammond kill'd purely by his Friend who unhappily taught him a Medicine to cure the Gout upon the Success of that Medicine the Doctor 's old Nephritic Pains return'd and in a Fortnight dispatch'd him Therefore for your own for your Lady's and for your Childrens sake Sir welcome the Gout to your House and shut all your Doors against the Physician I 'll warrant you for upwards a Hundred Lord how glad shall I be to see 'em pick Chalk-stones out of your Worship's Feet some forty or fifty Years hence by that time you 'll have learn'd so much Patience as never to rear for the Matter But if you do roar for that may be then as you use your self now they that look on if they love Life will envy not pity You Indeed you are already a fit Object for the Envy of Thinking Men for I have heard you confess that yours is an Hereditary Gout and that 's for the better an Hereditary Gout is a far greater Happiness than an acquir'd one what a deal of Intemperance and amorous Excesses might it have cost Your Worship to have got the Gout before Forty whereas now you have the mighty Blessing for nothing sorte nascendi it is your Birth-right Sir never think of parting with it Perhaps you may be now tempted to ask me how I acquir'd my Gout I shall not be shy to satisfy your Curiosity for I came by it honestly We

THE HONOUR OF THE GOUT OR A Rational Discourse demonstrating that the Gout is one of the greatest Blessings which can befal Mortal Man that all Gentlemen who are weary of it are their own Enemies that those Practitioners who offer at the Cure are the vainest and most mischievous Cheats in Nature By way of Letter to an Eminent Citizen Wrote in the heat of a violent Paroxysm and now Published for the Common Good By Philander Misiatrus LONDON Printed for A. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane MDCXCIX THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER THis Piece which I present you as appears from many Passages in it was Wrote towards the beginning of the Reign of King William whether or no the Author be living I cannot satisfie you but this I will engage greater Profit and more agreeable Entertainment were never purchased of a Bookseller Cheaper ADVERTISEMENT THE Author is of Opinion That some Epistles Dedicatory would do best standing after the Pamphlet therefore good Reader pass on and expect mine in its proper place SIR I Owe you a greater Observance more profound Respects and hearty Thanks for Favours to which I had not Merit to pretend than I am able to express should I make Words and Phrase my Study but I am not like to do that at present for you have us'd me so of late that you tempt me to think you are going to put as much Despight into one Scale as ever you put Obligation into the other Why Sir I am informed that your Worship not having a right sense of things nor the Fear of God before your Eyes should to the disgrace of your own Vertue give your Tongue the liberty in an open Coffee-House to speak ill of the Gout Of the Gout Sir which if you look on as a Disease you ought to welcome as the most useful and necessary thing that could have happen'd to you But if you consider as becomes you then with me you must reverence it as a Power Divine On whose Sacred internodial Altars I Each Spring and Fall at least will sacrifice Morbisick painful loads of Matter tartarous With Recrements of nervous juice impregnate Would you your self Sir patiently endure the Honour of our Great Master our Rightful and Lawful King to be contemptuously reflected on by e're a recreant piece of Conscientious Priest-craft that infests the Town Then why should not I be concerned for the Honour of my Great Master the Gout who claims not 't is true the power he exercises over me by any Hereditary pretence but from an Origine altogether as Sacred and Indisputable viz. some voluntary Acts and Deeds of my own Yet you could say that when the Almighty God had out of rude Chaos built this goodly frame of Nature which we see and form'd his Noble Creature Man he indulged the Devil to Create some one thing and his damn'd Envy gave Being to the Gout Now I am confident Sir and have great Authorities for it that if the Devil ever created any thing it was the Doctor of whom since you have made so much use I know not but it may be rationally inferr'd that you have dealt with the Devil The Gout Sir whether you know it or no was postnate to the Creation and younger something than the Fall of Man who having incurr'd the Sentence of Death the friendly Gout was sent in Mercy down from Heaven to lengthen wasting Life By my consent you should never have the Gout who have no more consideration in you than to blaspheme it I always took your Worship for a Person the most accommplished our City has ever bred I imagin'd that you thoroughly understood most things but it could never enter into my head that you should fall into so Profane an Errour as to think into so rash a Practice as to speak ill of the Gout But because my Soul has been full of humble Deference to your Worship I will be at some pains to recover you to your right mind and a due veneration of that Friendly Daemon the Gout For though you may value your self and reckon that no girding Satyrist can take up the Old Proverb against you and say That you are afraid of your Friends when there is none near you yet what is worse they may reproach you with this disgraceful Truth You are afraid of your best Friend when he Kisses your very feet Now upon this Subject having no need to use the inveagling Arts of Oratory I shall not with Tropes and Metaphors with Flourishes and Amusements of insinuating Words seek to divert your Mind and cheat your Judgment but to make my Work the shorter and do it effectually press you with plain Demonstration Your Errour Sir was this That the Devil Created the Gout I prove he did not You know Sir that the Man of Sin the Son of Perdition best known by the Name of Antichrist is the Pope You must not doubt of this for till the days of that Excellent Prelate Archbishop Laud the whole stream of Protestant Interpreters gave it so a learned Chaplain of his has put that Character upon the Grand Seignior and a famous Annotator has taught our Church to split Antichrist into Simon Magus and his Gnostick Followers I must confess I have a sort of a respect to these Authorities but the Body of Modern Dissenters and the general Agreement of Interpreters Whig and Tory in the Age before weighs them down Take in then the Lay-mobility of the Nation who should know something but are confident of nothing more than that Antichrist is the Pope and your Worship will agree it with me that that 's the plain Truth of the matter By the way I will observe one thing which will not trouble my Demonstration but yet your Worship see how ready I am to allow you in your Speculation all that can reasonably be desir'd A celebrated Author notes that the Ancients described Antichrist by the Phrase of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The First-Born of the Devil Supposing now that the Devil created something as you contend you see it could not be the Gout at least not if you 'll be judged by the Fathers but rather Antichrist or the Pope I desire your Worship to consider next that you shall not read in Platina Onuphrius or any latter Antichristian Biographer that ever faetid Toe of Pope was visited with beneficial Gout But had so great a Blessing been created by the Devil as you fondly imagine the Devil had for a certain bestow'd it on his First-born the Pope Nay and then too instead of the filthy Scrutiny through the Porphiry Chair for old and wasted Testicles the Deacon had only pull'd off the Stocking of the Elect and the ratificatory Report had been Dominus noster Papa habet Podagram In short Sir Antichrist or the Pope for they are one and the same First-born of the Devil according to the Ancients being never favoured with the Gout it is plain that the Devil did not create it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which