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flop the Pores of Perfpiration, which 
fhould be our great Care to keep open. 
4. Taking every Night at 7 or 8 o’Clock 
20 Gr. of Gafcoigne Powder , and half 
a Dram of ConfeElion of Alkermes , drinking 
the following Draught ; take of Camomile 
Flower-TVater y fimple and compound Worm- 
wood Water of each one Ounce, of Liquid 
Laudanum 30 or 35 Drops, (or more, ac- 
cording to the Violence of the Pain, and 
the Length of Time it has been taken, or 
the Perfon accuflomed to it, and perhaps it 
may be requifite, to take half that Quantity 
more about Midnight, if the firft compofes 
not) and a Dram of compound Spirit of La- 
vender ; the Vehicle may be altered as is 
moft grateful to the Stomach, but the above 
Liquid Laudanui?i muft be continued, as 
the only Quieter of Pain and Procurer of 
Reft, and alfo the beft Gout Medicine , 
in this Cafe , for it is the moft fovereign 
Relaxer of ftiffened Solids, and the ftrongeft 
DiaphoretiCy both which make it the moft 
excellent Anti arthritic Medicine known. 
When the Fit is going off, the Pain pretty 
much over, and the Inflammation gone, 
get out of Bed as foon as may be, and fit 
up as long as you can, for that is the beft 
Way 
