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doubt, many excellent medicins have been lost. Indeed at first sight an external remedy carrys the best pretence for success here, where it has given no previous trouble to the stomach, at that time its self very languishing, and ill able to bring it into action, if any thing useful that way could be given, which I wholly disbelieve. What ever we give inwardly must receive great alteration by passing thro' all the concocting and secretory organs and thro' the blood, before it can arrive at the part where its work is. But I observe in reading authors, where they have accidentally done any considerable service inn the gout, it was by some clumsy, operose, outward application and that oyly. Thus Galen, L. II. ad Glauc. c. 4. commends oyl of Sabin, and II. de simpl. med. f. c. 18. he much praises a saponaceous mixture of salt and oyl. Cælius Aurelianus commends oyntment of squills, and wild cucumer, euphorbium, adarce, likewise to foment the part with warm water and oyl apply'd with spunges. Euonymus in antidotario says, bones burnt and extinguish'd in oyl, app1y'd outwardly; are useful. Pliny, XXVI. 10. speaks of Verbenacea, cicuta, erigeron, these must be beaten with axungia. Poppy feed with milk, XX. 18. the feed is a mere oyl without any hypnotic quality. The net-

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