*‘ In fine, you may safely give my 
recipe to your friends, and i trust that 
your heart is good enough to allow you 
to bestow it on your enemies, if it should 
so happen that you possess any. Press 
them to remark, that whosoever leads a 
mild, sober, chaste, and active life—and 
there are still some corners of the earth 
where such men exist—the gout, which 
is the daughter of idleness and the pas- 
sions, is entirely unknown. Among 
these passions, the chief is intemperance, 
which not only errs as to the quality of 
aliments and liquids, but also exceeds 
in respect to, the quantity. 
““As to the guality, whatsoever is 
heating, strong, sharp, or salt, 1s bad 
for the gout. All fermented and spi- 
rituous liquors come under the, saine 
description. In respect to guantity, the 
digestion being always faulty in gouty 
people; the assimilating organs ought to 
be managed with discretion, so that they 
may not ‘have too much to ‘do at once, 
Dry and habitual frictions, together with 
constant but moderate exercise, ought to 
be promoted: watchfulness and late 
hours are both to be avoided ;-a sleep 
of seven hours duration, tranquillity, and 
gaiety of mind, these are the auxiliaries 
which efficaciously aid the digestion of 
the stomach, and contribute to the sa- 
nity of the body. 
“ What some frequently attempt to 
remove by external remedies, is generally 
nothing more than either the effect, or 
ethe critical deposition of the gout,which, 
provided it is not regenerated, termi- 
nates the malady. On these occasions, 
however painful the patient may feel 
himself, he has ample occasion for con- 
solation. 
«« But to return to the Duc d’Orleans : 
the honey water, of which he made use 
from time to time, had not, properly 
speaking, the gout ‘for its object ; this 
was used merely as a mild and gentle 
purgative, which sympathises better with. 
that disease than others of a more drastic 
“nature, to which he never recurred ;_ for 
since I had the honour to attend him, he 
has never been purged. Formerly this 
occurred monthly, and sometimes once a 
fortnight: he was also bled once every 
four weeks, but since | became his bouy 
physician, he has never onee lost an 
ounce of blood. 
«By means of the £ secret,’ which 
T have thus readily confided to you, his 
gout is nearly annihilated altogether, 
and his health is so completely re-esta- 
blished, that he has no further ogcasion 
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for me. Behold, sir, a true statements 
for [ have frequently communicated 
every thing, and the moral to be de- 
duced becomes self-evident: it is, that 
if peace of mind, temperance, exercise, 
and chastity, succeed so well with 
princes, we inay and ought to hope for 
great things in respect to “ourselves ; be= 
cause it is far more practicable for us, 
than for them, both to become and re- 
mai masters of our passions, as well as 
to live soberly and chastely. Exercise 
alone is more easy to them than to us: 
they possess a greater number of horses. 
Were it not for some advantage, who 
would be a prince? 
“¢T am:charmed, Sir, that the explana- 
tion required by you has procured me 
this opportunity to assure you of my 
respect, and 
S¢ oD aus gain, 
“ Your most obedient, &c. 
ns Tronourn.” 
us After reading this letter, and perusing 
his various works, who is it that will not 
form. an advantage eous Opinion of the 
heart and understanding ef Doctor Tron- 
chin? One is astonished, and ever 
scandalized, nay indignant at either the 
error or injustice of his countryman, 
J. J. Rousseau, who has dared to term 
him a Quack. Had he been so, this 
same letter would have afforded him a 
most excellent opportunity.” — 
“ Les FoeresSchreeder, Anecdote vérj- 
table, imitée del’ Allemand de Meissner.” 
The two Brothers of the name of Schre- 
der, a true Anecdote, imitated from the 
German of Meissner. 
A person employed in one of the 
public offices in Berlin, on his death left 
-his widow and several of his children in 
a situation approaching to indigence. 
Two of his sons, both in the public 
schools, and at the university, expe~ 
rienced all the privations, joined to many 
other of those disagregable circum= 
stances which fall to the lot of poor 
students; notwithstanding this, they 
never permitted themselves to be stopped 
in their career by any obstacles what- 
soever. The elder divided his applica- 
tion between jurisprudence, which might 
prove serviceabie to his fortune, and ma~ 
thematics, for which he bad always ex- 
hibited a decided predilection. 
At the end of their course they ob- 
tained. from the various professors the 
most honourable, attestations of their in- 
dustry and abilities; -but no possible re- 
source presented itself to them .in their 
native country, where they found It im- 
possible 
