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by the effect it had on my stomach ; if it 

 made me hiccup, the dose was too large. I 

 found occasionally, that it produced ardor 

 urince ; but this went off without any ill con- 

 sequences whatever. I have not yet found 

 it necessary to increase the dose ; but I use 

 rather a coarser powder than I did at first 

 which mixes more easily with the milk, and 

 probably produces rather more effect than 

 the fine." 



" The late Lord Rivers took ginger in 

 large doses, for more than thirty years, and 

 at eighty was an upright and healthy old man. 



" I have, since I used the ginger, had one 

 fit of the gout ; but it was confined entirely 

 to my extremities, and never assailed either 

 my head, my loins, or my stomach, and lasted 

 only seventeen or eighteen days ; but the 

 last fit I had before I took the ginger, 

 affected my head, my stomach, and my loins, 

 and lasted, with intervals, from the end of 

 October to January."* 



The roots preserved or candied are an ex- 

 cellent stomachic, and comforting ; boiled in 

 wine, with a little cummin seed, ginger eases 

 the pain of the stomach, and causes sweat ; 



* Sinclair's Code of Health, vol. i. page 233. 



