don and it has protracted the return. Purging too at proper intervals and seasons of the year, must be exceedingly advantageous. Perhaps it will not be unufeful if I mention what my worthy friend Sir George Savile has told me: than he has more than once carry'd off a fitt of the gout by Dr. Woodward's oyly purges; upon which I observ'd, that probably, the cure was owing as much to their being oyly, as to their being purgative. Petrus Bayrus pract. XVIII. 1. praises the Electuarium Caryocostinum of Galen, not without reason. He says, he kept off the gout for 26 years, by taking a drachm or more of it, 3 or 4. times a year, whenever he perceiv'd signs of a repletion., It was undeservedly left out of the last edition of our College Dispensary. I judge it advisable for the podagric, to keep it, by way of Confection, thus,
℞ Hermodactyl. alb. a cortice superior. mundat. Diagrydij ana ℥ ss. costi candidi sive Zedoariæ, caryophillor. Zinzib. sem. cardamom. min. ana ℨi. Ms. fi. Confectio cum syrup. mellis in vino albo coct. q. s. s. a.
Hippocrates observes that a critical dysentery or diarrhea has solv'd the fitts. Celsus II. 8. commends any flux of the belly, as useful in our case. Gilbertus Anglicus
