This Diet ought to be so long continued, until the whole gouty Matter be discharged forth of the Body, which is to be computed by the Degree and Length of the Distemper, and Observations upon the Cure in others. The longer it is continued, the more perfect Cure is to be expected; those that are over-run with the Distemper, are always to use it, others for an Year, and others for an Year and an half; some Persons who have, upon continuing it only for half an Year, thought themselves perfectly cured, and have returned too soon to their former Method of living, have so far exceeded, as to be seized again with the Gout, but returning to the Diet, have been cured; some more prudent, have continued the Diet for an Year, and then returned to their ordinary Manner of living by Degrees, always taking about sixteen Ounces or a Pint of Milk every Morning, and have thus for many Years been free. The best Time of Beginning the Diet is in the Spring, and that from the Beginning of _May_, to the End of _April_ in the succeeding Year. SECT. 6. Some have in the Continuance of this Diet been seized with Oppressions and Difficulty of Breathing, Weakness in their Limbs, Coughs and Phlegm; but these Symptoms either vanish of themselves, or quickly give way to Elixir _Proprietatis_ without an Acid, Spirit of Hartshorn succinated, _Sal volatile oleosum_, or any of the more fixed absorbent alkaline Medicines. SECT. 7. For those who are oppressed with an abundance of Humours, whose Bowels are full of Flatulencies, or are constipated, let them once in every Month or Six Weeks take a gentle Purge of Rhubarb, or of the Arthritick Pills, or half a Scruple of _Pill Ruffi_, or of _Sylvius_ his Gum Pills: But if the Body be open, and the Milk passes too quickly through, it may suffice to take twenty Grains of Rhubarb; or if the Body be bound, take twenty Grains of Rhubarb in the first Draught of Milk, drinking the rest of the Quantity after it, or else in the Evening take twenty Drops of the Essence of Rhubarb with the Milk, and repeat it as often as there may be Occasion; but for the general, if it can be conveniently done, the purging Medicines should be used in the Decrease of the Moon. SECT. 8. If the Milk should occasion a Looseness, let it boil before it is used, adding a Grain of Salt and so supping it hot; if it do not succeed the first Time, try it a second Time, and a third; but if it doth not do then, take a Dose of Crabs-Eyes, _Unicornu fossile_, or _Terra sigillata_. SECT. 9. If the Milk should heat the Body, let a third Part of Barley Water, made with Raisins, be added to it; or if it occasion Thirst at any Time, Barley Water with Raisins; or in case of a Cough, the pectoral Decoction may be used between the Intervals of using the Milk. SECT. 10.