PHYSICAL AND LITER ARY. 4<$(>^ 



a regular fit of the gout coming intis 

 both the feet and both the hands* ' '■ 



In -page 444 Dr Clerk mentions it as a 

 Cngularity of the arthritic ' ftrangury^ 

 that it is not increafed, but removed, bji^ 

 blifters applied to the ancles. I have fe- 

 veral times obferved the fame thing of a' 

 flight ftrangury in continued fevers. 



With regard to the anti- arthritic vir- 

 tues of the tanfy, I can fay nothing from 

 my own experience. As to the extradl 

 of the cicuta ; after taking it conftantly 

 for three months, for a glandular fwelling, 

 I was obliged to give it up on account of 

 a faintnefs at ftomach, flatulence, and o- 

 ther complaints attacking me, which, 

 from experience, I know to be owing to 

 the gout. This feems to Ihew, that the 

 cicuta has no confpicuous anti-arthritic 

 powers. Neither can lii"ne-water be look- 

 ed on as pofTefled of this property ; for 

 I had, fome years fmce, a patient, ex- 

 tremely temperate, who, afterhaving, for 

 three years running, drunk an Englilh 

 quart of lime-water daily, had a very fe- 



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