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The Honour of the Gout

Gelesen von Alister

This droll and 'enflammatory' pamphelet doth be a grondebreaking worke of musing upon a great aflicktion of Man, upon the better nature of that aflicktion, and upon the vain and mischievous cheats who affeckt to cure it.

The gauntlet here so-toss'd by Philander Misaurus was later pick'd up by surgeon John Marten in his rejoinder, titled by the name–"The Dishonour of the Gout". Which seeketh to shew all minds swayed by Philander's prettie words that—indubitably—Gout is misfortune.

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Title Page, Dedication, Poem & Advertisement

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Letter to an Eminent Citizen, Part 1

8:12

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Letter to an Eminent Citizen, Part 2

9:17

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Letter to an Eminent Citizen, Part 3

8:36

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Letter to an Eminent Citizen, Part 4

10:41

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Letter to an Eminent Citizen, Part 5

11:19

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Letter to an Eminent Citizen, Part 6

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Letter to an Eminent Citizen, Part 7

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