Selected Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D. : With a Short Biography And Explanatory Notes
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Now, though this remedy is said to come from the East Indies^ and to have been unknown to the Europeans till of late years, it will nevertheless appear to be of more ancient date with us, by con- sulting the writings of Hi-p-po crates j compiled above two thousand years since. For treating of the sciatica^ he advises: "// the pain be fixt in any one part, and does not yield to medicines, in whatever part it be, to burn it with raw flax "y and a little farther, speaking of the gout in the feet, ...he says : " The same things are proper here, that do service in the gout of the joints; and indeed this is a long and Painful, but not a mortal disease; if the pain, however, continue in the fingers, burn the veins above the joints with raw flax" Now I imagine that no body can think there is such a specific difference between the flame of burning flax and that of Indian moss, as to render the latter more effectual in the cure of the gout than the former; any more than he can suppose that a fire made with oak billets can do more than another made of ash.
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