FIRST EDITION, xx, 348, [12] pp index. 8vo. contemporary full sprinkled calf, flat spine ruled gilt with red label, gilt roll at board edges, sprinkled textblock edge; upper hinge neatly reinforced; authorial dedication inscription to Lord Somerville, and from Somerville to the the Swiss mercenary Louis, Baron de Roll (see below), very good. Detailed treatise on gout by Taunton medic Robert Kinglake (1765-1842), who advocates a controversial 'refrigeration treatment', involving the application of cloths soaked in a mixture of ammonia and cold water. Alleviating gouty symptoms was a holy grail of medical endeavour, particularly as so many high-profile people were among the sufferers. One such was the 3rd Duke of Portland, to whom the book is dedicated, who came from a long line of gout-sufferers including his father, who had been so plagued that he developed a treatment powder of his own devising. Kinglake addresses the efficacy of Portland Powders in the present work. Inscribed by the author to the noted agriculturalist John Southey Somerville, 15th Lord Somerville (1765-1819), and from Somerville to Louis Baron de Roll (1750-1813) the Swiss mercenary who formed the regiment of Swiss and Alsatian soldiers which fought for the British Army in the Napoleonic Wars.

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A Dissertation on Gout; Exhibiting a new View of the Origin, Nature, Cause, Cure, and Prevention, of that afflicting Disease; Illustrated and confirmed by a variety of original and communicating Cases [.]

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Printed for John Murray. Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; and Gilbert and Hodges Dublin

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1804

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