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Rh very sober way of living and use exercife: tho' they may allow a moderate use of all the comforts of life. Nor can we prescribe any other bounds than prudence and experience. We may retrench till we find the desired purpose accomplish'd. Health and long life are generally the mark of a good deal of prudence. Practice makes good customs easy. But what can be more easy, safe and pleasant than temperance, when health, when natural dictates, when religion require it? What greater encouragement, than that you probably may find with it and our prescribed method, a constant relief from the gout. And as gouty constitutions have commonly the soundest vitals, we may by these means, with some little inconvenience, avoid the pain and arrive at a old age. W. STUKELEY.

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