Tue Cure.—Let the onsen wholly on animal f 
‘milk diet, and for change take meat broths. He may drir 
fully too of milk whey ; but must abstain from all vegetable 
and malt liquors ; spirits diluted with water will not hurt him.  E, 
ercise is absolutely necessary, and too much cannot be taken ; ne 
can it be too often repeated, if it does not proceed to fatigue. The 
anal should be kept as calm and composed as possible; am 
and a little dissipation of thought is necessary. ‘Those who have 
been accustomed to live high, however, must not retrench too sude 
denly. 
In the fit, as the most efficacious means of dischargi the gouty 
matter is by perspiration, which seems to be the object vB: Nature, 
the foot, or affected part, should be bathed with the anodyne wash, 
warmed, gently at first, and afterwards rubbing harder, continuing to 
increase the friction for the space of half an hour, by which time the 
patient will bear it very well, and feel greatly relieved of pain. He 
should then get into bed, and ‘have the spirit vapor bath conveyed 
to the gouty part, wherever it is, by tubes. This should be applied 
as warm as the patient can bear it, and kept up an hour or more. 
This willcreate a profuse perspiration from the-swelled part, which, by 
throwing out the gouty particles, gives astonishing relief. I have 
often witnessed cases where, with this treatment, the papier Et 
transported from the most racking tortures of this d 
sweet sleep in the course of two hours. alate 
While the above treatment is in operation, the patient should 
internally, diaphoretics, carminatives and anodynes, as the fever 
powders, (which are of singular service, relaxing the system an 
giving ease,) or other diaphoretics; strong cordials and spirits ; 
fron and other stimulants, to guard the stomach. j 
If the paroxysm should threaten a return, let this treatment be 
repeated, as often as necessary; in the meantime lying the ano- 
dyne wash freely wherever there is pain, When the pain is very great, 
and the patient restive, he may take from thirty to forty drops of | 
laudanum, more or less, according to’ the violence 4 the symptoms. 
This may ‘be taken at bed time. 7 
- After the fit is over the patient ought to take a nt 
___ barb, or some warm stomachic purge. : al: 
; “infusion of stomachic bitters, in wine or ale, ; 
ought to be taken on horseback or in a cattite. 
All cold external applications that repel the matter, are to be ay +i 
ed as death. They do not cure the disease, but remove it 
safer toa more dangerous part of the body, ‘where it often s 
fatal. A fit of the gout is to be considered as Nature’s method of 
removing something that might prove destructive to the body, and 
all we can do with safety, i is to promote her intentions and assist hes 
in expelling the enemy in her own way. Evacuations by 
are to “7 used with extreme caution ; they do not remo 
