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eafe, that no univerfal cure will ever be 

 found for it j and that fuch medicines 

 as ftrengthen the fibres, and, at the fame 

 time, gently evacuate the gouty humours, 

 bid faired for fuccefs, Conftitutions 

 are extremely different one from another; 

 and, as in almoft every other difeafe, it 

 happens often, that different remedies 

 muil be ufed with uifferent patients, it 

 is not to be expelled that it fhould be 

 otherwife in this difeafe. It feems pro- 

 bable, that the tanfy will anfwer very 

 well with feme conflitutions ; but I 

 think it is as likely, that other remedies 

 will be found to anfwer as well, or bet- 

 ter with other conftitutions. In confir- 

 mation of which, I fhall relate a cafe, 

 wherein a very different medicine, viz. 

 lime-water, has proved fuccefsful. 



John Brown, porter of the Royal In- 

 firmary, is a tall, flout, full man, of a 

 fanguineous temperament, and aged for- 

 ty eicht. He was fird feized with the 

 gout about twelve years ago, which re- 

 turned upon him once in two years. Af- 

 ter 



