Excerpt from A Full and Plain Account of the Gout: From Whence Will Be Clearly Seen, the Folly, or the Baseness, of All Pretenders to the Cure of It, in Which Every Thing Material by the Best Writers on That Subject Is Taken Notice Of Hiflory about eight months ago i, Ih'ad taken my leave of the Publick as a Writer, with an intention never to appear agatu ln prmt: having exceeded my fl1are in the literary fervice of my country, and being convinced there is a time for every one to retire. But there is fomething in human nature, which gives the mind a fort of Biafs towards thofe Whofe fituations are fimilar to our own. Conce1vmg therefore that it was in my power, to increafe the health and cafe of a valt number'of people that were my fellow-fuf'ferers in the 600 T, I fancied it to 'be my Duty to break through the defign which I had formed, and once more to attempt at becoming ufeful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.