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Show MUGWORT, MUGWORT,. ing too much reflection upon what was to follow; and so wher he was well, denied himself nothing of what he had a mind toeat or drink; wW hich gave him a bodyfull of humours, and made his fits of the gout as frequent and violent as most I have known; ney came, he bore them as he could, and forgot themas soon as they were past, till a new remembrance. At this time layill of a cruel fit, which was fallen upon his knee, andwith reme pain: when he heard of my cure, he sent to me bist for but one remedy, ? which was, whenever he felé it,, to boil a ggood ’ quantity of horse d ung from a stone horse ofthe hermelinne colour, as he called it in 'Exengh, which is a native white, with a sort of a raw nose, and the same commo nly about the eyes. That when this was well boiled in water, he set his les in a pail full of it, 9 as hot as he could well endur e it, renewing it as it grew cool for above an hour together, ‘That after ithe drewhis he relation of it, and upon it, for my moxa, andfor Dr. Coleby He suffered it; but after his pleasant wayroared s at me all the while it was burning, andaskedif took him fur a sorcerer, that I sent to burn himalive. Yet with all this, the pain went away uponit, and returned no more to the same place; but he was something discouraged ee a new pain falling some days after upon his elbowon the otherside, which gave him a newfit, though gentler and shorter thanthey used to be. About the sametime oneof the maids of my house was grown almost desperate with the tooth-ach, and want of sleep upon it, and was without remedy. The book gives the same cure for certain in that illness, by burning underthe ear; and the man who sold it at Utrecht had assured Dr. cures by it in that kind. Weresolved and the pain immediately taken away, well, without hearing of it any more, Colebyhe had seen many to try ; which was oa and the wench aon at least while she was 1! myhouse! “During the confinement of this fit, I fell into some methods, and into much discourse upen the subject of the gout, that a be perhapsas well worth reflection by such as feel or ae it, as what I have told of this Indian cure. Inthe first p from the day I kept my chamber,till I left it, and began to ta abroad, I restrained myself to so regular a diet, as to eat i. but once a day, and little at a time, without salt or et nd to one moderate draught, either of water or ssmall e : go concluded to trust to abstinence and exercise, as I had ae i solved, if I fell into this disease; andif it continued,rc myself wholly to the milk diet, of which I had met with ¥%) many and great examplés, and had a great opinion even in long 4 andinveterate gouts. Besides this refuge, I met with, in my Mey‘ and conversation arising upon myillness, many notions oF hans nay be so periay? dicines very new to me, and reflections that may be | 03 to other men. Old prince Maurice of Nassaw told me,: he laughed at the gout, and though he had been several times Ke. tacked, yet it never gave him care nor trouble. That he used leg immediately into a warm bed, to conti nue the perspiration as long as he could, and never failed of being cured. Whether the remedy be good, er the cireumstance s of colour signify any thing more, than to make more mystery, I know not; but I observed, that he ever had aset of such hermeli nne hors es in his coach, which he told me was on purpose that ne ! mi want this remedy! ght hever The count Kinski, ambassador from the emperor to the treaty at Nimeguen, gave me a receipt of thesa lt of hart’ss-horn, by which a famousItalian physician of the emperors had performed mighty cures upon many others as well as= hanes and thelast year upon the count Montecuculi: the eof this I am; I esteem, both from the quality given it of pr ovokin;& sweatU trernely, and of taking away all that sharpness from y Whatever eX. you putitin; which must both be of good effect in the cure of the gout. The Rthyngrave, who waskilledlast summer before Mastricht, told me his father the old | thyngrave, whom I knew very well, had been long subject to the gout, and never used other method or remedy, thar upontheveary Sieh fit he felt, to go out immediately and walk, whatever the weath er was, andas long as he Was ableto stand, and pressit ig still most upon the foot that threatened him: when he came heme hewent to a warm bed, and Was rubbed very well, and chiefly upon the place where the pain be gun, f fit continued, or returned next day, he repeated the *ame Course, and was never laid up with it; and before his death recommended this course to his son, if he should eyerfa ll into that accident, A Dutchman who had been long in the East Indies, told me ‘i “ ' Oe part of them, where he had lived some time, the general remedy of all that were subjject to the gout was rubbing with it |