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teen years together, though with intervals 

 of hours, days, and even months, in 

 which he enjoyed perfect health, except 

 with refpecft to the floppage of urine, 

 which never left him at any time, fo far 

 as he remembered. He confulted many 

 different phyficians, at different times ; 

 but they could never make any confide- 

 rable impreflion upon his difcafe. Some- 

 times, when they gave him entirely over 

 as dying, he unexpcsfiedly recovered, 

 and became quite well all of a iudden, 

 without knowing any caufe for his re- 

 covery. Upon confidering the cafe> and 

 deliberating what might be the caufe of 

 his diftemper, 1 recollected the gouty 

 cafes, which I have juft now related, 

 where the ftrangury, or ftoppage of wa- 

 ter, was an attendant fymptom, while 

 the gout was lodged in the ftomach or 

 bowels. I therefore fufpeifled his difeafe 

 might to be the gout, and gave him fome 

 hopes of recovery, which he had entirely 

 defpaired of. Dr Stork having, among his 

 other high commendations of the cicuta, 

 recommended it likewife in gouty cafes, 



though 



