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 " Indies ; but particularly by an ingenious little book written of it by a 

 "■ Dutch minifter at Batavia, who being extremely tormented with a lit of 

 «' the Gout, an old Indian woman coming to fee him, undertook to cure 

 " him, and did it immediately by this Moxa ; and after many experiments 

 " of it there, he had written this treatife of it in Dutch, for the ufe of his 

 " coiintrymen, and fent over a quantity of the mofs and matches to Utrecht, 

 *' to be fold, if any could be perfuaded to ufe them. 



" I had always heard that a fit of the Gout ufed to have fix weeks at the 

 " leaft for its ordinary period, a delay very diftreffing to one in my fitua- 

 " tion, for I was at that time preft in my journey to Nimegucn, by his 

 " Majefty's * commands, to afiift at the treaty there. Mod of the ambaf- 

 " fadors from the feveral parts of Chriftendom were upon their way, one of 

 " my colleagues was already upon the place, and I had promifed imme- 

 " diately to follow. This made me ponder on Moniieur Zulichems new 

 " operation ; and upon reflefting how many cures have been performed 

 " by fire, I refolved upon making the trial, and difpatched a meffenger to 

 *' Utrecht to bring me fome of the Moxa, and learn the exaft method of 

 " ufmg it from the man that fold it, who was fon to the minifter at Bata- 

 " via. He returned with all that belonged to this cure, having performed 

 " the whole operation upon his hand, by the man's dire6Hon. I immedi- 

 ** ately made the experiment in the manner before related, fetting the 

 " Moxa juft upon the place where the firft; violence of my pain began, 

 " which was the joint of the great toe, and where the greateft anger and 

 " forenefs ftill continued, notwithilanding the fwelling of my foot ; fo that 

 " I had never yet, in five days, been able to ftir it, but as it was lifted. 



" Upon the firft burning, I found the (kin flirink all round the place ; 

 " and whether the greater pain of the fire had taken away the fenfe of a 

 " fmaller or no I could not tell ; but I thought it lefs than it was : I burnt 

 " it the fecond time, and upon it obfcrved the flcin about it to flirink, and 

 " the fwelling to flat about it more than at firft. I began to move my toe, 

 " which I had not done before, but I found fome remainders of pain. I 

 " burnt it the third time, and obferved ftill the fame effeCts without, but a 

 " much greater within, for I ftirred the joint feveral times at eafe ; and, 

 " growing bolder, I fet my foot to the ground without any pain at all, 

 " After this I purfued the method prefcribed by the book, and the author's 



* King Clwrlcs H. 



