If the Stomach be weakened by the Use of the Milk, the Patient may be allowed Sugar Biscuits, sopped in _Spanish_, _Italian_ or _Burgundy_ Wine, or any other that is neither Acid nor Foul; and if necessary, even a Glass of those Wines: Thus the Stomach will be fortified, and more easily perform its Office; if there should be a Necessity for it, some of the warm aromatic Powders may be brought into Use. SECT. 11. After this Diet hath been used twelve or fourteen Months, the Patient may begin to use Flesh Meats of easy Digestion, avoiding sharp, acid or salt Meats, but using such as we mentioned before, drinking Milk still, or small Beer well wrought, neither stale nor turbid. SECT. 12. The Cure being thus absolutely finished, it will be still necessary to take every Morning a Pint of warm Milk, and to be constantly cautious about your Diet, avoiding every thing acid or sharp. SECT. 13. To prevent the Milk from cruddling, some Sugar may be mixed with it, or even a little Salt, thus the Acid is prevented from gathering; but this should be done but seldom, and upon the most urgent Necessity. SECT. 14. Though there should not follow an immediate or sensible Change upon the Use of the Milk for some Time, yet the Patient ought not to be disheartned; for if these Rules be strictly observed, and the Patient be otherwise in a good Habit, the Pains will vanish by Degrees, and a due Strength and Tone return to the Limbs. CHAP. III. I Have now delivered the Directions I proposed, partly from the Authors before-mentioned, and partly from my own Experience; by a due Observation of which many Persons have been perfectly relieved from this grievous Distemper; of which I shall give some Examples. _D. Sorbait_, p. 741, tells us, that he knew several Persons, by the Use of the Milk-Diet, either perfectly cured, or their Gout so much overcome, that their Pains were dwindled to nothing. _John Pilus_, the Emperour’s Surgeon told me, that tho’ he frequently had Fits of the Gout, and almost lost the Use of his Limbs, so that he was in a very miserable Condition, yet for these three Years past, by the Help of this Diet, he hath been perfectly free from Pain, his Countenance is now become fresh and healthy, he hath had several Children, and appears as if he were born a-new. Count _Coningseck_, his Imperial Majesty’s Counsellour, found the same Benefit by this Diet; and Count _S. Hillario_ of the Emperour’s Bed-Chamber; several others, who were almost worn out with the Gout, grown pale and wan, have in a manner become young and florid again by this Diet. The Bishop of _Wallendorf_, tho’ quite impotent by the Gout, was cured by Milk. Three noble _French_ Refugees, the Marquess _de Bongi_, Monsieur _de Chamar_, and the Counsellour _de Talo_, have been now many Years free from the Gout, as appears by the Letter before inserted. I am told that a Consul, and several others at _Hambourgh_, are now using this Diet with Success. A