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 tie water, and to repeat it occafional- 



Besides, I cannot pafs unnoticed the 

 elFedls of the cicuta, in the cafes of G. H, 

 and I. K. For, fiomthefe cafes, it feems 

 probable, that the hemlock is poffefled of 

 a virtue of bringing the gout from different 

 parts of the body into the extremities, at 

 leaft, in lome cafes, and in fome conftitu- 

 tions. If G. H. could have been pre- 

 vailed upon to take proper care of him- 

 felf, efpecially till the gout had left the 

 extremities of itfelf, I am periuaded I 

 would have made a thorough cure ot him 

 at the time, as I did in the cafe of I. K. 

 though indeed his difeafe was not of fo ^ 

 long a {landing. 



P. 5. As it is two years fince I read the 

 above paper, I mufl now remark, that I 

 have ever fince been attentive to the cir- 

 cumRances contained in it ; and that 

 any obfcrvarions I have made upon 

 the fubjecl have, in general, been agree- 

 able to what I have there advanced, and 

 that I have little or nothing to retract of 

 what I wrote at that time. 



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