4^4 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



beginning of the fit, he was always well 

 Vicxt day ; but if he allowed the fit to go 

 on for fome days, it obliged him to have 

 recourfe to the herrings for three nights 

 running ; however, he was always fure 

 of being well in three days at moft. 

 The nights on which he took the reme- 

 dy, he wrapt his feet in flannel, and they 

 fweated. As the diilrefs for want of 

 drink was exceflive in the night, he ufed 

 to chew fome hay or fhraw, with a view 

 to lefTen the violence of his third. Ever 

 fince he began this method of cure, he 

 has had very good health through the reft 

 of the year, except the firft year. For, 

 having been much hurt by a fall from a 

 tree that year, viz. in fummer 1750, he 

 loft much of his ftrength, of his fight, 

 and of his memory ; but, by the ufe of 

 fome medicines, and a feton in his neck, 

 he was perfcclly recovered before the time 

 of the gout's returning upon him next 

 fpring. This prefent year, his health has 

 been very good, though he had no fit of 

 the gout laft fpring, as ufual, which is 

 the firft time he has milled it thele twen- 

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