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Rh occasion of trying them again upon my self.

'Tis burthening the reader's patience and my own, to recite many of these cases, and trifle in circumstantial descriptions. The cure is as general as the variety of cafes can he. I have seen where the recent gout has fallen upon persons in full vigor of manhood, upon both feet, ankles, knees and hams at once; and where from no temperate way of living, the podaric matter has been much and furious. I have seen the practise of it in people in years that have labor'd long under the cruel evil. And in rheumatisms of the most severe kind, and in many instances of the sciatica or hip-gout. Sharp has been the engagement between the malady and the remedy; yet in a week's time the fitt is master'd by the unction, all the pain and swelling is gone, and in 10 days or a fortnight they can walk abroad, and ride as well as ever: which fitts ordinarily would last 3 or 4 months. The quantity of ii of the oyls will generally perform this cure. During the operation they make water freely, and have a stool regularly every day; both are fœtid, the water is full of clouds as soon as made, very high color'd and becomes very turbid, and full of sediment of a greasy, sabulous matter. If it stands 2 or 3 days you see variety of