Select observations on English bodies of eminent persons in desperate diseases first written in Latin by Mr. John Hall ... ; after Englished by James Cook ... ; to which is now added, an hundred like counsels and advices, for several honourable persons, by the sam

OBSERV. XX.

ESquire Vnderhil, aged 50, was miserably tor∣mented with the running Gout, which pained all the Joynts of his Body, as Ancles, Knees, Arms, Neck, &c. Which was by the ensuing Medicines cured in a few days. ℞ the Pouder of the Root Sarsaparilla, Sena, each ʒvi. Cream of Tartar ʒiii. mix them. The Dose was from ℈ii to iv. which gave him three or four stools a day. The Body being well purged, the following Bath was used: ℞ Salt lbi. Quick Brimstone ℥iss. Alum lbss. Bay berries ℥iv. Boyl them in sufficient quantity of Water: he sat in it daily up to the knees morning and evening. This delivered him not only from the Pain in his Feet, but from that callous hardness under his Toes. For preservation in the month of October was used the following: ℞ Caryocost. ʒiiss. Elect. de Tamarind. ʒss. Cryst. Tart. ℈i. f. Bol. cum Sacch. After was used Pil. Podagr. Plater. As ℞ Hermodactils skinned ℥ss. Aloes, Turbith, Mecoachan, Rubarb, yellow Mirobalans, also Chebul••, Mastich, each ʒi. Roots of round Birthwort ℈i. St. Johns-wort, Seed also of Cummin and Ginger, each ʒss. Salt gem. ℈ss. with the Juyce of Ground-pine make Pills, adding Diagrid. ʒss. Dose, sometimes every month was taken ʒi. and so he was deliver∣ed from that Pain begun, but yet wholly it was removed by the former Pouder: to which was added Betony ℥ss. Sugar of Roses ℥i. And thus for

many years he was cured, and it never returned again.