13o1.] 
think me fully juftified in publifhing this 
caution in the ufe of a remedy of this cha- 
racter. 
-But its ill effets were not known to 
our own countrymen only. Werlhoff, a 
German practitioner of eminence, and 
Firft Phyfician to his late Majelty for the 
Electorate of Hanover, agrees in condemn- 
ing thefe bitter remedies for the gout. Af- 
ter faying that the return of the painful 
paroxylms is thereby prevented, he adds, 
** that, by the exceffive ule of thefe bitter 
remedies, he has known the digeftive 
power of the ftomacii to be fo weakened, 
asto produce a lofs of appetite and proper 
concoétion of the food, which has accele- 
rated the death infead of reftoring the 
health of thofe who ufed them, who thus 
paid the fevere penalty attendant on the 
trial of thefe unlucky and milchievous re- 
medies.’’* , 
Murray, the Gottingen Profeffor, gives, 
in his Apparatus Mcdicaminum, afimilar 
account: and adds, ‘‘that the powder 
produced in many inftances apoplexy, pal- 
fy, and acute dilorders, together with dif- 
ficulty of breathing, a dry cough, and tu- 
bercles of the lungs, which proved fudden- 
ly mortal.+ 
The reputation of this medicine having 
declined before I had any opportunity of 
obferving its effeéts at the time of taking, 
and its mifchievous confequences having 
prevented its having many living vouchers 
of its fuccefs, I cannot fay any thing of it 
from my own expexience. I remember 
indeed one perfon, far advanced in years, 
who was, I believe, a Proctor in the Ec- 
clefiattical Court at York, who was point- 
ed out to meas a remarkable inftance of 
one who had furvived the effects of this 
remedy. Heappeared in good health, and 
had not, I believe, experienced any ill-ef- 
fects from the powder. But this is, as far 
as my information goes, a folitary inftance, 
and no more to be depended on as an en- 
couragement to the trial of the remedy, 
than an extraordinary cafe of excefs in 
* <¢ Sed ex nimio horum amaricantium ufu, 
fermentum ftomachi adeo debilitatum effe me- 
mini, ut nonnulli appetitum amiferint, ci- 
bos non concoxerint, mortem hinc potius 
quam fanitatem accelerarint ; malique et 
infaufti remedii fevas dederint penas.” 
WeERLuoFF, Caut. Medica, p. 346. 
+t ‘* Ex pulvere arthriticomulti apoplexiam, 
paralyfin vel morbos acutos, fenes precipue, 
contraxerunt. Et in homine quodam, arthii- 
tis quidem inde fedata, fed refpiratio difficilis, 
tuffis ficca, morsque fubitanea fucceffit, tu- 
berculis pulmonum poft mortem confpicuis.” 
wih Murray, Vol. i, p. 355. 
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Account of Fairfax. 
.tranfpofed, and more omitted. 
211 
fpirituous: liquors,* which fill did not 
appear to abridge life or injure health, 
would be to encourage the indulging in 
that odious and poilfonous beverage. 
Batb, W. FALCONER, 
Feb, 12, 1801. 
ene 
To the Editor of the Menthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OME accountof Fairfax, or his works, 
having been requefted in your iaft Ma- 
gazine, I fend you the following memoranda, 
copied from fome MS. of the late Dr. 
Farmer, in the firft folio edition of Fair- 
fax’s Godfrey of Bulloigne, 1600; pur- 
chafed by me at the fale of the Doétor’s li- 
brary, and now in my pofleffion : 
‘<M. Filla traduit [viz.the Ferufalem 
of Lafo] en vers Anglois, & fa traduction 
a été imprimée a Lowdres en 17132? 
que) "Nieeron Ts 2 eRe 7. 
Eufden, the Poet Laureat, left in M.S. 
a tranflation of the greater part of Ta/fo. 
Gurr" p. B24 
A tranflation by Hoole, 2 vols. 12m. 
1764. 
A tranflation by Dayne, 2 vols. 8vo. 
Dubl. 1761. 
‘¢ This youth fell mad for the love of 
an Italian lafs, defcended of a great houfe, 
when I was in Italie.” I. Eliot’s Orihoe- 
peia Gallica. 1593. 
N. B. Hoole’s tranflation is in heroics, 
and Doyne’s (Philip, elq.) in blank verfe. 
“* The firft part containing five cantos, 
imprinted in both languages—(See Ames, 
p- 412)—by R. C.F efq. 1594. The pub- 
lifher fays, that ‘* the doer of them com- 
manded a ftaie of the reft till fommer.”— 
never printed, N.B. Same ftanza with 
Fairfax. ¥ 
‘¢ Fairfax has tranflated Tafo with an ele- 
gance and eafe, and at the fame time with 
an exaétnefs, which for that age are fur- 
prizing. Each line in the original is faith- 
fully rendered by a correfpondent line in 
the tranflation.”’—Hume’s Hiftory, vol. I. 
AB ied oy 
POP THe tale iobleteation iy” BY Ab 
means true: there are indeed, except in 
the 7th canto, the fame number of /faz- 
zas; but many lines of the original are 
Inthe 7th 
canto or book, Fairfax has a flan%a more 
than Taffo. 
* Bifhop Berkley ufed to call the few who 
had drank’ fpirituous liquors with impunity 
for a feries of years—** the Devils Decoys.” 
+ Perhaps Carew. It is printed for C. Hunt, 
of Excters fae 
Ee2 Fairfax 
