Before I finish this Discourse, I shall endeavour to give some Account
why People that have been cured by this Method, and have lived many
Years free from the Gout, at certain Times of the Year, particularly
upon Change of Weather, or at that Time of the Year when they used
to have the Fits, perceive some slight and obscure Pains about the
Joints of those Limbs that were formerly attacked. This I suppose to
arise from the Blood and Humours being thickned by the preternatural
Influence of the Air at those Seasons; if upon such a Cause the Humours
become thicker in the mucilaginous Glands, the Membranes must of course
be distended. Now because this doth not proceed from any particular
Acrimony, but from a Fullness and slight Distention, therefore the Pain
thence arising is hardly perceivable, and vanishes upon gentle Exercise
and walking, in which the Motion of the Blood is a little increased.