A treatise upon the rheumatism, as well acute as chronical. With observations upon the various causes that may produce them and a method of cure, subjoin'd to every distinct species of that distemper / by John Cheshire.

  • Cheshire, John, 1695-1762.
Date:
1735
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Credit: A treatise upon the rheumatism, as well acute as chronical. With observations upon the various causes that may produce them and a method of cure, subjoin'd to every distinct species of that distemper / by John Cheshire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    out being acquainted with the Hiftory of Difeafes, and the Method of Cure, deliver’d by the firft Fathers of Medi¬ cine, and fo continu’d down for many Centuries. But this is only to be the Balls upon which the Superftrudlure is afterwards to be rais’d, by juft Obfervations, upon the Improvements which the Art of Healing has ac¬ quir’d in every Age, to his own Time, as well from the Philofophy, as the Experiments of the learned Au¬ thors in the Faculty. I’m not igno¬ rant, that there are fome, of no fmall Reputation in the Schools of Literature, who depreciate and vilify the antient Inftitution-Writers in Phyfick, and charge them not only with Obfcurity, but Ignorance in the particular Nature of the Difeafes, which they have, I’m perfuaded, impartially endeavour’d to defcribe, according to the Philofophy a i of