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Show 696 MUGWORT. MUGWORT, it as an effect commonly of intemperance; and hated it, as that I thought it made men unfit for any thing after they wereonce deep engaged in it: besides, I was prest in my journey at that time to Nimeguen by commands, to assist at the treaty there. M of the ambassadors from the several parts Christendom were upon their way; one of my colleagues was al. ready upon the place, and I had promised immediately for by our commission we wer tion; and to y at this pinch 1ad always heard the gout used to have six weeksat the least for ith these comforts about me. use no remedy of a hundred riod. cante to see me (a g the re never came into company without new, and so he did. upon this occasion. roving of my obstin ), who, I think, omething that was For talki 12 of my ill. against all the common d the Indian 697 woman coming to see him, undertook to cure him, and did it immediately by this moxa; and after many experiments ofit there, had written this treatise of it in Dutch for the use ofhis countrymen, and sent over a quantity of the moss and matches to his son at Utrecht, to be sold, if any would be persuaded to use them. ‘That though he could not say whether experime nt had been made ofit here, yet the book was worth reading ; and for his part he thought he should try it if ever he shouldfall into that disease. I desired the book, which he promised to send me the next morning ; and this discourse of Dr. Zulichem busied myhead all night. I hated the very name of the gout, and thought it a re. proach: and for the good sien people called it, I could not find that mended an ill thiag; nor could [like any sign ofliving long in weakness or in pain. [ deplored the loss of my legs, and confinement to my chamber, at an agethat left melittle pleasure but of walking and of air; but the worst circumstance of all, was the seutence passed upon it of being without cure. [had past twenty years of my life, and several accidents of of physicians ; and from some experiments of my own, as well as much reading and thought uponthat subject, had reasoned myself into an opinion that the use of them and their methods (u idden and acute disease) was itself a ver steatest practisers practised | > But for the wed7 to be rene ry, and till the to them wise [ should certain ly Hippocrates, wh have tried upon the authorityof the great it should be done upon th t motion of the humourin the gout. Tor poult ice: pain; but withal, that they drew down tl the part knew they allayed urs, and suppled aprer to re- ceive them in greater quantity; and I had often heard it coneluded, that the use of them ended in Josine hat of one’s limbs, by weakening 1@ joint upon everyfit. yr plasters that had the humours, which could not be done without endang ering perhaps som € other disease of the bowels, the stomach, orthe head. , : Rest, and: warmth eithe r of : cloth; es or bathi. ngs, [ doubted would inan Na degree havetheeffe. cts of= poultic %, eset FA eae es ; and sweati: ngocapwas proper. for prevention rather than remedy. So that all I could endin any effect > 1 thought it must be by dispersing or repelling p. 106, &c. merid. ¢ 33; and dec. 2 Decad. 1; an. 6,7; obs. 218 a 1, obs. 127. Ettmull. vol. i. |