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Rh to the body, to part with a quartan ague, before it has been shook with it for a full year, as that it would not be safe, to lose the pain of the gout, before so many weeks are over: and nature it self has, as it were, in pity to the diseas'd at last given them a convenient respite. The benefit of outward applications when properly administer'd, in a raging fitt of the gout, is as great as the freedom from pain in any other part, is ease and comfort, in respect of that part,

Thus does our judicious author in the fulles't manner, say all that can in strongest terms establish the practise, we are recommending to the publick: tho' all the while he was ignorant of the great remedy which Providence put into our hands, immediately after his death. From mere judgment he pronounc'd, what is the appropriate cure of the gout, tho' he saw not what could answer all his intentions of cure; and could scarce hope that it would ever be accomplish'd by one application only, and that so simple and easy. He saw too, that it must be by some what external. Even the learned Dr. Pitcairn, in his division of diseafes, reckons gout and stone diseases extra animal. But how well does Dr, Harris distinguish between the cure of the Gout, and the cure of