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it unufually fevere, was perfuaded to apply it. He had then the 
gout exceedingly painful in the ball of the great, toe and inftep of 
one foot. On this part he rubbed a quantity of the oil of Camphire; 
" and in about half an hour or a little more he was entirely freed 
" from the pain he had before,* In lefs, however, than an hour 
" after, he had a pain and inflammation come upon the fame part of 
" the other foot. As the pain here became pretty fevere, he again 
employed the oil of Camphire, and with the fame effect of focn 
The confequence of this was 
relieving the pain" very entirely. 
4i alio the fame ; for in lefs than an hour the pain and inflammation 
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turned to the foot that had been iirft affected : and here 
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our patient, obftinate in perfifting in the trial of his remedy, again 
applied the oil, and he had the fame fuccefs as before in relieving 
the part affe&ed, and with the fame effecl: alfo of occafionine a 
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ation. But here the tranilation being made to the knee, the 
patient abftained from any farther application of the oil, and fuf- 
fered the pain of the knee to remain for a day or two, and till it went 
off by fome fwelling and defquamation in the ufual manner. 
" This hiftory fhows fufhciently the power of Camphire in relievin 
the inflammatory fpafm and pain of the part chiefly affected; but 
at the fame time that it has no effecl: on the diathefis of the fyftem, 
and that, when that fubfifts, as Camphire is ready to ■■ occafion a 
tranflation, it will always be employed in gouty cafes with great 
In cafes of acute rheumatiiin, we have had occafion to 
danger. 
remark, that a ftrong folution of Camphire in oil would relieve the 
pain of the joint for the time chiefly affeeled ; but it was very often 
with the tranilation of it to another joint foon after: and we have 
therefore long ago ceafed from employing fuch an application in 
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^ t may be fuppofed that it is analogous to this power of Cam- 
phire in taking off an inflammatory Bate, that this medicine has 
been often found fo ufeful in relieving toothach ; and I have no 
doubt that Camphire operates by the power mentioned in relieving 
toothach, but it is alfo by exciting a copious flow of fliliva and 
mucus from the internal furface of the mouth, that water fomewhat 
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