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found that he had had flight touches of 

 the gout in his feet, at different times ; 

 which, however, he had never properly 

 attended to, thinking the pains were too 

 flight to be gouty. I ordered him half 

 an ounce of the elixir facrum, to be taken 

 every fecond night. This had a very 

 good effed upon him, in fo much, that ic 

 not only cured him at the time, but al' 

 lowed him afterwards to ufe much more 

 freedom in eating and drinking than he 

 could ever do before. Next fpring, his 

 fl:omach-ailments were flighter,fo that be 

 neglecfled to ufe the elixir ; and, upon 

 their going off fooner than the ufual time, 

 he was feized with a very copious gonor- 

 rhoea, the matter of which was ill co- 

 loured, and did not rope : It was not, how- 

 ever, attended by a ftrangury, or heat of 

 urine. He was much alarmed, as he had 

 no notion that it could be of any kind 

 but the venereal, though, at the fame 

 time, he v.as pretty fure there was no 

 reafon to think he had acquired it in fhe 

 ordinary way. Upon examining all the 

 circumftances, and finding that there was 



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