a cure for the gout, July ^^. 



A TURKISH CURE FOR THE GOUT. 



Off reading the following little story you will fnd the cure. 

 A RICH Turk, a man of considerable note in bis own coun- 

 try, having been taken by a Maltese galley, had the good 

 fortune to please the knight who commanded her. He 

 took this Turk into his own service, and treated him in 

 such a manner as the slave had no room to expect. That 

 knight was often subjected to very severe sttacks of the 

 gout -y — his slave, whom he loved, and who was even fami- 

 liar with him, said often to him, ' if you were in my coun- 

 try I would cure you entirely ; but the remedy is suchr 

 as cannot be made use of in this place.' 



After some years, the knight being satisfied with his' 

 slave, gave him his liberty without ransom. The Turk 

 on his return home, made an armament to cruise against 

 the Christians. He had the good fortune to take a vefsel 

 bound for Malta. Wlien the prisoners pafsed in review 

 before him, he recognised the knight, his old master and 

 benefactor. He made a sign that this knight (hould be se- 

 parated from the others ; gave orders that he (hould not be 

 put in irons ; and that they (hould treat him as his own- 

 person ; but he would not see nor speak to him. 



The corsairs having arrived at the place of rendezvous^ 

 the Turkilh captain alked of his afsociates that particular 

 slave, in preference j. and that being granted him, he caused 

 them give him a horse, and conduct him to his house. 

 Scarcely was he ai rived and lodged in a handsome apart- 

 ment, magnificently fuini(hed according to the masner of 

 the pldce, when he saw seven or eight men enter, who, 

 without saying a word, undrefsed him, stretched him on a 

 matrafs in the middle of the room, tied his feet to a great 



