FOOTNOTES:
[186] From the Columbian Magazine, vol. I. p. 64. Editor.
[187] What physicians call the perspirable matter, is that vapour which passes off from our bodies, from the lungs, and through the pores of the skin. The quantity of this is said to be five-eighths of what we eat.
[Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout.][188]
Midnight, October 22, 1780.
Franklin.—Eh! Oh! Eh! What have I done to merit these cruel sufferings?
Gout.—Many things; you have ate and drank too freely, and too much indulged those legs of yours in their indolence.
Franklin.—Who is it that accuses me?
Gout.—It is I, even I, the gout.