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oF the Gout. Confequent to thefe are Watchings , Weak- 
nefeand SAOoning.s fonietimes inflammation , and an E- 
ryfip.las 5 Nodes , and a Calculous Concretion like Chalk 
often occafioned by the indifcreet applying of Coolings 
Drying and repelling Medicines. 
Sometimes Swellings are caufed by a Flux of humours 
whereby alfo the ligaments ot the Joynts being moiftened 
and relaxed; If thofe Chalky tophi chance to interpofe , 
a diflocationenfues. 
In his Third part hetreats of the cure of the Gout; and Tm. 
refl*e(aing on the ineflSicacy and uncertainty cf other Medi- 
cines hitherto prefcribed^ recommends burnings though a 
fevere, yet as an adequate cure to fo ftubborne a Difeafe 1 
after, having briefly confidered the difference of 
and repeated the various effeds of Wind in human bodies, 
he proceeds to Ihew, that the fire , either potential or afta- 
al* is the genuine difpeller of this Wind, and that from 
the practice oiAlhucafis and Me[ue among the Arabians 
from the Obfervations of Projper Jlpinm on the Egyptians s 
and from various inftances of itsfuccefe in feveral cafes > 
efpeeially in the lalHng^-SicknefsiConvullions^ Apoplexies » 
and other difeales of the Head and Nerves ; which being 
dilaffefted by fome cold pituitous humours , he makes the 
Fountains of all the morbifick Winds in the body. 
That the efficacious way of burning has been difufed,\ 
he afcribes to the fofc Education of thefe latter ages, where- 
by men are rendredavcrfe to a method of cure too harfh& 
cruel 5 to fenfe grown tender by Luxury Eafe and Pleafurc; 
and therefore wifties a morekind way of Cautery could be 
invented > than bare fire 5 yet commends that before feme 
potential.^ 
