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little or no reafon for thinking that he had 

 got it in the ordinary way ; that his (lomach 

 had been well fince it had appeared ; that 

 he had had flight touches of the gout in 

 his feet formerly ; and that others of his 

 family had been gouty : I fay, upon con- 

 fideringall thefecircumftances, 1 fufpedl- 

 ed that his gonorrhoea was a difcharge 

 ot the gouty kind. I told him fo, and 

 that I would endeavour to cure it as fuch, 

 in place of ufing the antiphlogiftic me- 

 thod he had been accuflomed to in vene- 

 real gonorrhoeas, and which always 

 confiderably hurt his conflitution at the 

 time. I accordingly gave him no medi- 

 cine but the elixir facruniy in the fame 

 way as formerly ; and, in about ten days 

 or a fortnight, he feemed to be well. 

 However, 'ioon afterwards, having gone 

 fcmetimes a hunting, and ridden fmartly, 

 he imagined he had hurt one of his te- 

 llicles in taking a leap ; for it was imme- 

 diately feized with a conliderable fwel- 

 ling and inflammation. This lafl ail- 

 ment was cured by bleeding, fome dofes 

 of the infuj'um amarum cumjcnna^ fomenta- 

 tions. 



