Cf .  also  Overbury's  Characters  (ed.  Morley,  p.  63)  :  '  His  libera-
lity can  never  be  said  to  be  gouty-handed.'


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3.  4.  45.  Sweat,  Purge,  and  Phlebotomy.  These  were  the
chief  methods  used  in  the  cure  of  sickness  or  indisposition.
Burton,  Anat.  of  Mel.  1.  271—2,  enumerates  the  conditions
which  are  benefited  by  these  means.  For  a  humorous  satire
on  the  excess  to  which  the  practise  of  phlebotomy  was  carried
at  one  time  by  physicians,  see  Le  Sage's  Gil  Bias,  Bk.  2,
chaps.  3-5.
3.  4.  57.  the  tother.  This  is  a  survival  of  the  early  ME,
form  ;  the  t  of  the  first  word  being  added  to  the  second  ;  thet
other  becomes  the  tother.
3. 4. 60.  From  the  King's-head.  '  The  reader  will  be
pleased  to  learn  that  this  tavern  stood  in  New-Fish  street :
it  was,  as  our  old  writers  affirm,  "  haunted  by  roysters,"
so  that  the  wine  drank  there  was  unquestionably  of  the  very
first  quality.' — G.  '  Kings'  Head  Court,  Fish  Street  Hill,
to  Pudding  Lane,  marks  the  site  of  the  famous  old  King's
Head  Tavern,  "  where  Roysters  did  range."' — ^Wheatley  and
Cunningham,  London  Past  and  Present  2.  344.
3.  4.  62.     E  mute   may  be   pronounced   (Abbott,  §  487).
That  is  I  my  course  |  with  all  |  my  Pa  I  tients.
3.4.63.    Secundum  Artem.   According  to  the  rules  of  art.
3.  4.  64.  pro  captu  recipientis.  For  the  pleasing  of  the
recipient.
3.  4.  64.  R  often  softens  a  preceding  unaccented  vowel
(Abbott,   §  464).
