a^OK ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 



Art. XII. 



The EffeSl of Mujk in curing the Gout in the 

 ^ Stomach j l^y James Pringle Efquire, 

 ^ : late Surgeon to the third Regiment of 

 ^~ Foot-Guards*, 



A Gentlewoman, aged 43 years, natu- 

 rally of a delicate conftitution, who has 

 been for feveral years fubjed:. to hyfteric 

 fits, attended with a dry afthma, which her 

 fhape much contributed to j was frequently 

 attack'd to a violent degree with the gout in 

 her head and ftomach, as well as in all her 

 extremities J and with which fhe waskme the 

 moft part of Summer 1745. On the 3d of 

 Novefnber following, (he was violently feized 

 with it in her ftomach, which occafioned 

 violent hiccups and convuliions of the part. 

 The dcfcription flie gave of it was, that as 

 foon as thefe fits feized her, there came on 

 a violent working of her ftomach, and fo 

 great an agitation of her back, that her Maid 

 was not able to keep her hand on it. By- 

 degrees 



* Aprile 3. 1746. 



