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CHAP. IX. 
Plain and necejfary Directions for Gouty 
H E Gout y when rightly managed. 
indead of a Punifhment and Mis- 
fortune, is a Means to lengthen Life, and a 
Sign of drong Principles of Health, and a 
found Conditution at the Bottom. But of 
all the Difeafes incident to human Nature, 
it requires the founded Judgment and the 
deadied Condudt, to treat it aright; and 
enraged it is rendered the mod dangerous 
by the dighted Errors. Sydenham has rightly 
obferved, that the mod judicious and fafed 
Way of treating it, confids, in neither weak- 
ening Nature by drong Evacuations of any 
kind, and too low a Regimen ; nor running 
into too high and inflammatory a Diet ; to 
keep the Gouty Humour upon the Limbs 
and Joints, and hinder it from returning 
inward upon the noble Organs ; and the 
fame holds good as to the Nature of Medi- 
cines. But it confids in the Medium, in a 
temperate Regimen, diffident to maintain 
and preferve the Spirits drong and free. 
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