42($ ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



By the gout, however, I do not mean that 

 perfe(5l kind of it alone, which is certain- 

 ly much more frequent among elderly 

 people, viz Ihat painful {welling of the 

 extren.ities, which gives fo much relief 

 to people afflitfled with other ailments, 

 and which S)denham, and other authors, 

 have chiefly deicribcd. I mean by gout, 

 not. only that, but likewife the ai thnt'n 

 anomala, or irreguUr gout, whicii Muf- 

 grave, in his two books * on this lubjed, 

 has fo much enlarged upon. 



As the true and moft falutary feat of 

 the gout it in the extremities, efpecialiy 

 the feet, fo the arthritis anomala is that 

 dileafe, when feated in other parts of the; 

 body. 



The arthritis anomala, I would divide 

 into two heads. The one, is the gout, 

 which, from a weakneis of fome of the 

 inward parts or from other caufes, 

 takes its original feat in thefe parts ; and 

 is either lome confiderable time before it 



gets 



* De Arthritide fymptomatica, Exoniac 1703, 

 8to. ; et, de Anhritide anomala, Exon. 1707. 8i'o. 



