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Rh of colors, and those parts that swim at top become mouldy. The stools are pretty natural and biliose. Their stomach begins to return in 3 or 4 days time; they are entirely quit of pain, and can live after their ordinary manner, and sleep at night. In a common and moderate fitt, where it's not become inveterate, the cure is so easy and pleasant, that it appears rather as a delicacy, than a medicinal application.

This year 1733 just seven days sooner than last year, I was seiz'd again in like manner, in most sultry weather, which was the reason of its hastning. Sydenham says, if a former fitt has treated us hardly, the following one comes regularly, when the year is return'd to the same point. I am as sure as I possibly can be of any contingency in this world, that it would have held me under its barbarous tyranny and confinement, for three or four months at least, had I not us'd this efficacious remedy. It came with great violence and suddenness, pouring down like a torrent, and I have no reason to think it would have been in any degree milder than last year. I had but just then regained any tolerable strength in my feet, since the last conflict. The oyls abated the pain presently. The 2d day, it was so little, that we podagrics may with ease put on Rh