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With refped to the cure of L. M. I 

 mud obferve, that he married foon after ; 

 and that, except a flight return ot the paia 

 in his tedicles. a fmall degree of his old 

 ftomach diforders, and latdy an ordi' 

 nary fever, he has kept free of every o- 

 ther ailment, without ever having taken 

 any piercury. 



As to what relates to the virtue which 

 the hemlock may be pofreffed of, of bring- 

 ing the gout down into the extremities, 

 I have fince tried it in a good many cafes, 

 and have found, that it fometimes fuc- 

 ceeds, though ic oftener fails. But, if it 

 anfwers fometimes, it is fo far ufefal, as ^ 

 ic is quite a harmlefs medicine, and re- 

 quires no regimen but what is otherwife 

 proper for the dileafe. In one cafe, which 

 there was reafon to think a gouty one, 

 the cicuta performed a cure, by removing 

 the fymptoms, without producing a re- 

 gular gout. This patient, N. O. had 

 been long fubjea: to a lumbago, which, 

 at laft, having left her, was fucceeded by 

 a numbnefs and fenfe of coldnefs in the 



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