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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26131	A discourse shewing the nature of the gout with directions to such remedies as will immediately take away the pain ... : and also helps for palsies, plurisies, cholick, convulsions in limbs ... : with receipts and directions for the cure of the king's evil and other diseases / by W. Atkins.	Atkins, William.	1694 (1694)	Wing A4125; ESTC R28312	46,595	146

such-like things avoid and be temperate and moderate in the use of all things and this will be a good Rule to observe against this Disease But in the Fit of the Gout you may eat Meat once a day freely you need not refrain any good Diet no more than at other times I shall not stand to name particulars but in short you may eat Fish or Flesh or Herbs or any thing else that is nourishing Food But such as have had the Gout long on them and are brought to be weak and have not an Appetite to common Diet let them strive to eat and drink something that is more strengthning than Water-Grewel for sometimes eating too much of that and other Spoon-meats brings a Dropsy and hinders the curing the Gout I shall advise you to such things as are good to strengthen and nourish you and whereas you can eat but little eat the oftner and by so doing you will by degrees get a better Appetite But being willing to help you I will direct to such-like Diet as may be sutable to help weak Persons In a Morning for a Breakfast Take a pint of Ale boil it and scum it then take it from the Fire and let it stand till it be half cold so break in two or three new-laid Eggs brew them together and drink it while it is warm In my judgment if a Man hath ●ot a Stomach to eat a good Breakast he may with such a Morning's-●raught hold up till Dinner-time But weak Stomachs want change of Diet. Now if you have a good old Nurse they commonly know how to make much of themselves and therefore are the better able to advise to that as may do good for a Master or Mistress My Mind is that People as are not sick should get the best Kitchin-Physick as can be provided or else for want of this Lameness may soon turn to Sickness I do not intend to fill up my Book with Directions for Diet but yet I would give a little help to put your Nurse in remembrance to study to make good heartning things to keep up the Body For Change I shall give you farther Directions that you may know what may be good in a Morning or some times between Meals and use the best of your skill in providing Good Jellies are proper sometimes made after this manner Take two Calves-feet and pu them into three quarts of Water boil them in a Pipkin till half b wasted away then strain off the Feet and set the Liquor on the Fire again put in half a pound of blew Currans well cleansed and two pennyworth of Saffron and half a quarter of an ounce of Cynamon a dram of large Mace boil these till the Currans be plump and take it from the Fire and let it stand till it be half cold then have ready at hand a pint of White-wine with four Eggs well beaten to mix with the White-wine and six ounces of fine Loaf-Sugar Brew these with the White-wine very well then take your Calves-Feet Gelly being as I said half cold mix all together beating it very well with a Spoon till it be almost cold this well prepared is good to eat at any time Night or Day and it may be eaten either warm or cold according to the Season of the Year but in cold Weather warm it a little This is a good thing in a Morning to take about half a pint or more I would advise you for a Dinner to eat Flesh though never so little but eat as freely as you can for that is the best way to get strength sometimes eating against Stomach doth procure a better Appetite against the next Meal for those that are weak it is not good to boil or roast their Meat over-much I am sure for Consumptive People Flesh over-roasted is not good but if you love not your Meat with the Gravy in it then you had better stew it and put in Sippets of White-bread so eat it for then the Liquor is the best of it and Meat thus dress'd is strengthning If you are disposed to eat Fowl 't is proper to have them well roasted or boiled Also Fish if it be not well dress'd is not good being subject to rise in the Stomach and that doth cause a loathing of Food One good way to help the weak is to study new things for often change of Diet is a great help to procure an Appetite and this is the proper Business of good Cooks and Nurses I would advise you to eat freely in the Day but at Night be moderate for then you have more freedom to drink either Wine or strong Drink for that is not hurtful provided you drink not to excess but small Beer is certainly the best thing you can take to bring the Gout on you therefore if you love the Gout drink good store of small Beer and you may be sure it will come with full power This I can speak by Experience that I have found that small Beer will bring a Man into a Consumption sooner than any thing I know of I have been caught twice but I take heed to avoid a third bout for when I find my self thirsty I drink good strong Drink I have seen some afflicted with the Gout that with low Diet and small Beer have been almost consumed to nothing and the Disease is much more powerful and they have no strength to help themselves It is a miserable thing that a Man or Woman shall be in bodily Health but yet in great tormenting Pain with a Leg or an Arm that the very Anguish of the Pain shall cause them to cry aloud till they are almost spent and yet in this Condition they are perswaded to refrain from eating or drinking of the Best though then they have most need of it to support Nature and I am certain that there is less danger of a Fever to keep the Body in strength than when the Body is brought low and weak I do know that what I say in this by admitting you to eat and drink freely in the Fit of the Gout is contrary to the Judgments of some Men but let none be offended for my giving Advice according to my knowledg of the Nature of the Disease If you think my Advice is not good then I make my Appeal to you that find fault with me and I leave you to be Judges by my way of Practice and by the Success I have for no Man can say that ever any died of the Gout that have been under my hands It is now near three Years since I discovered the Gout-Balsam and I have done greater Cures with that Medicine in this time on the Gout than have been done by any others as I have proved before many Witnesses But since I have corrected and amended my Gout-Balsam and discovered other great Secrets I cure many other Diseases and for the most part with outward Medicines but when I find any that are weak and low I am constrained to direct