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PHYSICAL anv LITERARY. 275 
ART. XII. 
The Effect of Mufk in curing the Gout im the 
' Stomach; by JAMES PRINGLE, E/quire, 
late Surgeon to the third Regiment of 
Foot-Gaurds*, 
A. Gentlewoman, aged 43 years, natu- 
rally of a delicate conftitution, who 
has been for feveral years fubject to hy- 
fteric fits, attended with a dry afthma, 
which her fhape much contributed to, 
| was frequently attacked, to a violent de- 
| gree, with the gout in her head and fto- 
mach, as well as in all her extremities; 
and-with which fhe was lame the moft 
part of Summer 1745. On the 3d of No- 
vember following, fhe was violently fei- 
zed with itin her ftomach, which occafion- 
ed violent hiccups and convulfions of the 
part. The defcription the gave of it was, 
that, as foon as thefe fits feized her, there 
came on a violent working of her ftomach, 
and fo great an agitation of her back, 
to that 
Tat April 3. 17463 
