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 publish d for the common Good. By Philander Misaurus.

[iv], iv, [ii], 57, [1]pp., 8vo. With a preliminary leaf and a final page of publisher s advertisements; first and last pages a bit dusty but an entirely untrimmed copy in old wrappers. Neatly pasted to the verso of the title-page is a clipping from a 1750 periodical, a poem titled "On the first Fit of the Gout" which is an altered version of the poem in the present pamphlet. Probably the third edition, not so stated, with the first appearing in 1699 and another in 1720. There is a satirical dedication to, among others, "all strolling Practitioners and Impostors," There follows various headings: "The Gout gives a Man Pain without Danger"; "The Gout is no constant Companion, but allows his Patients lucid, joyous Intervals"; "The Gout presents you with a perpetual Almanack," and so forth. OCLC supplies two locations for this edition, at Rochester and Yale, with the Yale entry giving the date as 1743. The bookseller s advertisements date to 1735.