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than in men; or, if they do, there are 

 many of them that would rather rifli the 

 danger of putting away the fwelling,than 

 be at the trouble of clothing their feet 

 well enough for the purpofe, which are 

 commonly but very flightly covered, and, 

 of confequence, apt to be cold. 



If this is the cafe, that the fluor albus 

 is fomecimes of the gouty kind, we fee 

 one realbn why that difeafe fliould be 

 fometimes difficult of cure, unlefs it be 

 attended to at the time that it may pro* 

 ceed from this caufe, as well as from o- 

 thers ; as it becomes neceffary on this ac- 

 count to treat it then as an irregular gout. 

 With refpedl to the cure of the ar- 

 thritis anomala imperjc^a^ as the chief in^ 

 tention is to bring the gout down into 

 the extremities, it ought to be much the 

 fame with the cure of the other genus of 

 the arthritis anomala, and muft be va- 

 ried accordingly in the different fpecies 

 of the difeafe. Mufgrave, in his two 

 books, has very fully delivered the cure 

 of the anomala perjeda ; therefore, I need 

 not iiililt much upon it, I have, upon 



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