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But, if either the tanfy or the lime- 

 water, or any other medicine, {hall ever 

 afterwards be found to be a prefer vative 

 againft the gout, it is not to be expedled 

 that it alone will do the bulinefs, without 

 other aflillance. For, as indolence, or 

 want of exerpifc, together with an excefs 

 in eating or drinking, are thegreateil pro- 

 moters of the gouc; fo temperance, fo- 

 briety, and exercife, efpecially riding a 

 horfeback, mull be affiilants in the cure. 

 Befides, there are other circumfkances, 

 which, though they appear ot little con- 

 fequence, yet may be of confiderable ufe, 

 and which, if negleded, may prevent a 

 method of cure, though otherwife good, 

 from taking effedl. It is to be obferved, 

 that P. Q^rubs his limbs twice a day with 

 a flefh bruili, and never baths them in 

 warm water. And an ingenious gent'e- 

 man of this fociety, who is himfelf trou- 

 bled with the gout, and drinks tanfy with 

 a view to remove it, tells me, that he 

 finds a coniiderable advantage in bath- 

 ing his feet, not with plain warm water, 

 but with moderately warm water, to 



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