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Show TOL MUGWORT. MUGWORT. hands ; and that whooverhad slaves enough to do that constantly every day, and relieve one another by turns till the motion raised a violent heat about the joints where it was chiefly used, was never troubled much, or laid up by that disease. , but that i¢ never Jaid him up, but he was still walking after his deer or his stud while he had the fits upon him, as at other times, and often from morning a to night, though in pain all the This he gave me as one instance, men have sometimes the gout, and thé who take no more notice of it than that poor and toiling more mayhaveit, his keeper did, who yet he confessed used to bring the fits of gout upon him byfits of drinking, which no doubt is a receipt that will hardlyfail, if men growold in the custom. M. Serinchamps told me, a Lorrain surgeon had undertaken to cure it by a more extraordinary way than any of these; which was by whipping the naked part with a great rod of net- tles till it grewall over blistered; and that he had oncepersuaded 1 to perform this penance in a sharp fit he had, andthe pain cnees so violent, as helped him to endure this remedy, id it was cruel, that all where he was whi and swelled as well as blistered, him a fever that night. * orew SO angry, that he thought it had given pext morning the part was all as stiff as a boot, and the skin like parchment ut that keepiog it anointed with a certain oil Jikewise of nettles, it past in two days, and the g ithout feeling any more pain that fit! All these thir writes of cures by and by other c conclude, that+4ur the gout was a like an enemy, and by means lik troublesome c y by good usage; and this was conf me by considerin t it haunted us rich, the nice and thelazy endure little ; yet leave not maki that take care to sea ast eee leed 1 ‘ } } carry it presently to bed, and keep it safe and warm, ana met for two or three months, while they give out ™ lay up the gout >gout lays up them. On t’ other side, it hardly approac : it | poor, suchas labourfor meat, and eat only for ger; that drink water, either pure, or but discoloured ¥ i, malt; rougt rand that know no use of wine, but for a cordial, as it is, and perhaps was only intended : Orif such men happen by their native constitutions te fall into the gout, either they mind it not at all, having no leisure to be sick ; or they use it likea dog, they walk on, or My youngest brother told me he had a keeper very subject to while. 705 they toil and workas they did before, they keep it wet and cold; orif they are laid up, they are perhaps forced by that to fast more than before, and if it lasts, they growimpatient, and fall to beat it, or whip it, or cut it, or burn it; and all this while perhaps never knowthe very nameofthe gout. But to follow my experiment: I past that summer here at Nimeguen, without the least remembrance of what had happened to me in the spring, till about the end of September, and then began to feel a pain that | knew not what to makeof, in the same joint, but of myother foot: [ had flattered myself with hopes, that the vapour had been exhaled, as my learned authors had taught me, and that thereby the business had been ended: this made me neglect my moxa for two days, the pain not being violent, till at last my foot began to swell, and I could set it no longer to the ground. ‘Then I fell to my moxa again, and burnt it four times before the pain went clear away, as it did upon the last, and [ walked at ease, as [ had done the first time, and within six days after above a league without theleast return of any pain} I continued well till this spring, when about the end of March feeling again the same pain, and in the same joint, but of the first foot ; and finding it grow violent, | immediately burnt if, and felt no more after the third time; was neveroff my legs, nor kept my chamber a day. Upon boththese last experiments ! omitted the application of garlick, and contented myself with 4common plaister upon the place that was burnt, which crusted and healed in very few days, and without anytrouble. I havesince continw’d perfectly well to this present June ; and with so much confidence of the cure, that [ have been content to trouble myself some hours with telling the story, which, it is may at one time or other be thought worth making publick, if fam further confirmed by more time and experiments of my own, orof others. And thereby I maynot onlysatisfy Dr. Zulichem, but myself too, who should be sorry to omit any good | thought I could do to other men, though never so unknown . But this cure, I suppose, cannot pretend to deal with invete. fate outs; but I have known so great cures, and so many done 2G |