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Rh volatile nature than others; and perhaps our oyls would supply its place. Surely the fat can act no other way, than by its unctuousness, which invelops and sheaths the fiery  of the poyson, and so do the oyls with the matter of the gout, according to my assumption. And with the same view has  been usefully applied to the gout; 'tis an imperfect way of administring a volatile oyl. But I was unwilling to be tedious in discourflng on a recent subject, and which requires much experience and maturation, before one can pretend to make a regular treatise upon it.

It was with some difficulty, that I persuaded the preparer of these oyls, to send some bottles up to Town. Who represented that his only aim was to give case to himself and such of his patients as thought fit to make use of them, without any view of having them made publick. He rested himself well pleased in doing some good. But as I laid my Injunctions upon him (as he writes to me) to make it known in a more public manner for the benefit of mankind, he will discharge his duty in the faithfulness of its preparation: and has sent up bottles of it, to be sold at Mr. Rogers's a hatter, the corner of Chancery-Lane, Fleetstreet, his son. The method of using, is to heat Rh