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 pratitioners 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 published for the common good. By Philander Misiatus.

Abstract

Philander Misiatrus is a pseudonym. "To all the numerous offspring of Apollo, whether dogmatical sons of art, or empirical by-blows" has caption title. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.