268 Sir Everard Home’s farther observations, Be. 
it came on the 10th of July, and was removed in the same 
manner as the former, by the same dose of the medicine. 
The President of the Society also, convinced by the evidence 
contained in this and the former Paper, that the Vinum Col- 
chici, in which there is no deposit, must be a less hurtful 
medicine than the Eau Medicinale, thought it a duty to him- 
self and the public to make trial of it, and on the 20th of July, 
when the gout in his left hand and the whole of the joints of 
that side of the body was very severe, allowed me to give 
him 90 drops of the Vinum Colchici, and found that the 
symptoms of gout were sooner and more completely removed 
than they ever had been by the Eau Medicinale, of which he 
has an experience of seven years, having taken it regularly 
ever since the 17th of February, 1810, and during that time 
kept a regular account of the doses, their effects, and the 
intervals between them. 
