Page:Of the Gout - Stukeley - 1734.djvu/93

And by this means we doubly cut off the growth of the succeeding fitt, by restoring the patient to early vigor of the solids, and by totally destroying the matter of the present fitt, making the crisis compleat and perfect as well as speedy. A benefit not to be sufficiently valued! to redeem the solids from that fearful relaxation, by the humors lying upon them and puffing them up for months together; so that they pit like dough as in a dropsy, and at the last the skin comes off; instead of this fiery tryal, to have a speedy ease from disease, symptoms and bad consequences: this is the blessing which Dr. Harris hoped for from the assistance of art, and for which, he fays, we ought to thank God. This in reality is the completion of the admirable Sydenham's prediction. Non his majora promitto; quamvis a longa cogitationum serie, quas huic rei impendere tantum non sum coactus, inducar credere, ejusmodi remedium quandoque inventum iri. Quod si unquam acciderit, inscitiam suam. Dogmatis exprobrabit, atque inde liquebit, quam insigniter tam in dignoscendis morborum essentiis, quam in medicamentis, quibus eos aggredountur, hallucinentur. I need not scruple to affirm from judgment, as well as experience, that 'tis the greatest discovery that has been made in our own country, in the art of Medicin.