All those who have other Distempers complicated with the Gout, as the
Scurvy, Leprosy, bad Habit of Body, Stone or Gravel, Hystericks, the
Pox, or other Distemper arising from the Impurity of the Blood, too
great a viscidity or acrimony of the Juices, or a known or latent
Acid in the Blood, are first to use Absorbent, Diuretick, Sweetening
or other Medicines, proper to their particular Distempers, till the
Acrimony or Tenacity of the Blood and Humours be corrected, the Acid
expelled, and such complicated Disorders overcome, and then apply this
noble Remedy of a Milk-Diet to the Cure of the Gout alone, from which
they may certainly promise themselves Success: But if while the Body
is ill prepared, or full of vitiated Juices, the Milk-Diet should be
preposterously brought into Use, they will not only be disappointed in
their hopes of Relief, but bring certain Destruction, and Increase of
their Disorders; as actually happened to the Count _de Perlebourgh_,
and _a Lubech_ Consul in this Neighbourhood, who having a Complication
of Distempers, made an improper Trial of a Milk-Diet.