Transcriber’s Note: the listed errata, and a fewother small typographical errors, have been corrected. The author’seighteenth-century variable spelling is left unchanged.
DOLÆUS
Upon the CURE of the
GOUT
BY
MILK-DIET.
To which is prefixed,
An ESSAY upon
DIET.
By William Stephens, M.D. F.R.S.Fellow of the King and Queen’s College ofPhysicians in Ireland, Physician to the RoyalHospital, and Botany Lecturer in the Universityof Dublin.
LONDON:
Printed for J. Smith and W. Bruce on the
Blind-Key in Dublin: And Sold by John Osborn
and Thomas Longman in Pater-noster Row.
Mdccxxxii.
To the Right HonourableMarmaduke Coghill, Esq;L. L. D. Judge of thePrerogative Court, one ofthe Commissioners of theRevenue, Provice-Chancellourof the University,and one of His Majesty’smost Honourable PrivyCouncil.
SIR,
It cannot be thoughttoo great a Strain ofCompliment, to dedicatethe following Papers toyou, since they were undertakenwith an Intention of servingyou and some of yourFriends, and are published attheir Request. I am in no greatPain about their Success, sinceyou have approved my Parttherein. Popular Applause isoften lost in the two quickor eager pursuit of it, andCensure is too great a Markof Eminence for me to beafraid of; so that if my Friendsapprove my Conduct, I shallbe satisfied.
It may be thought Vanityin me to name you, amongmy Friends, but I have receivedtoo many Favoursfrom you, in Instances of someConsequence to me, not toreckon you so, which I mustbe very insensible not to beproud of, and ungrateful notto acknowledge; and to whichthe utmost Services in myPower are but a very inadequateReturn.
It is not to be expectedthat any Thing I can sayshould add to that Esteemand Respect you deservedlyhold among all that knowyou, and therefore I forbearto enter into any Parts of yourCharacter, or your Conductin publick and private Life.The great Stations you sojustly fill, give you Opportunitiesof doing kind Actionsout of the Power ofmore private Persons, andof satisfying your Inclinationsto Benevolence, whichare apt rather to out-runyour Power than fall shortof it, and seem boundedby nothing else: But I amonly in this Place to presentyou the followingPapers, with my Wishesthat they may contributeto your Health or yourEntertainment, and to acknowledgemyself
Your most obliged and
obedient humble
Servant,
Will. Stephens.
