29th June, 1733.
OF THE
GOUT.
HEN I published the letter last year, about the cure of the gout by oyls externally apply'd; I did not lay my self under any engagement to defend the practise at all adventures. I recited only what I then knew of it, having heard of and seen its success in my own neighborhood, to a surprizing degree. I had carefully weighed the thing in my mind, found it well answer'd the theory of the distemper; such as I had form'd to my self; from experience, practise, and from the best reasoning I was master of. It promis'd no more than it perform'd, which was to cure a fitt of the gout; There were no instances of ill consequences in the use. It had been try'd 3 or 4 years, and in a sufficient number of cases, Lastly, I had used
it
