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us, undertake to, cure the Gout, or any other difeafe, 
and have no Moxa, I would recommend to them Cot- 
ton. 
Ihavealfo tryed the tinder of burnt linnen, but this 
burneth more fierce, and deep at once, then would be 
done at lo times, with Moxa or Cotton. 
A relation of mine, much troubled with the Gout, has 
his heel fpoyl't with the great quantity oi Chalk, that 
breaks out of it j this matter I examined in my Method, 
and feparated the fame in 3 parts, the firft was the dryeft, 
and whiteft, ma^e of fmall irregular parts, as if iome 
fmall lands lay together; thele thro' the Microfcope 
appeared very dark bodies, and eachof them confifted 
of a great number of long tranfparent figures s which I 
can liken to nothing better, then to cut Horfe-hair^ 
fome thing (harp at both ends: Thefe figures I judged 
lo thin, that more then a 1 000 of them lying clofe toge- 
ther, would not make out, the thickaefs ot a hair oi our 
kead: Ihavereprefented fome of them, that their pro- 
portion iH thicknefs, to their length, might be com° 
prehended,as Fig. 4. A. I have alio found that thefe parts 
lay in very good ordcrjone by the other, as in Fig. B. 
and fometimeS2, or 4. and more in length. I have 
often feparated thefe Imall fand-like parts, one from the 
other, and again divided eachof thole parts, and thcn^ 
I have not only feen, the figures which conftitute the 
white matter, as Fig. B. but for the moft part, in aeon- 
fuled order, as Fig. 6. C. I have alfo feen fome of thefe 
figures fo fhort, that fame of them were in length but \ of 
Fig. A' and fome but iye a \ thereof, as here Fig. 7» Do 
but 1 conceived this was not their true length, but, that 
in the hatidling, they had broken. Among thefe figures, 
lay fome irregular parts , which were again confti- 
tuted of Particles, which I judged, had been Globules 
of blood, and had here in prefl5ng, bin broken or bruifed ; 
As alfo many roundifti parts, which ! Judged, ha^ been| 
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