428 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



eh(/!ia^ the morbus hypochondriacus^ and 

 arthritis jixa fcorbutica^ the lues venerea, 

 the allhma, fevers, the eoHc, and from cu- 

 taneous difeafes. 



He fuppofes, that the can fa continens^. 

 oi materia morbifca of thele difeafes, by 

 being differently modified, either puts 

 on the appearance of the gout, or be- 

 comes the gout itfelf ; and, in lome, he 

 fuppofes, that the materia morbifica of the 

 gout and of the other difeafe unite to- 

 gether, and form a difeafe different from 

 either of them. In general, they require 

 a method of cure different both from 

 that of the gout, and of the fymptoma- 

 tic difeale ; and indeed, he always fets 

 down the method of cure under the dif- 

 ferent fpecies which he mentions. 



I will not fay, hawever> that all the fpe- 

 cies which he enumerates come fo pro- 

 perly under my plan. In fome of them, 

 the fymptomatic difeafe feems to be on- 

 ly a predifponent caufe of the gout 

 which followed. But, in others, the 

 fjrmptomatic difeafe feems to be as much 



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