William Atkins (doctor)

Portrait of William Atkins attached to his Discourse (1694).
Atkins' A Discourse Shewing the Nature of the Gout (1694).

William Atkins (fl. 1694) was an English quack of the Restoration period. He gained some fame and wealth for his supposed cure of gout, the subject of his only published work: A Discourse Shewing the Nature of the Gout (1694).