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tions, and a hemlock -poultice. No mer- 

 cury was ufed, and he has kept free of 

 venereal complaints, and indeed of ail- 

 ments of every kind, ever fince, though it 

 is now fourteen months fince he was cu- 

 red. 



REMARK I. 



There are feveral diagnoftic figns of 

 the arthfitis anomala i77iperfeHa^ fome of 

 tliem general, and fome of them peculiar 

 to the particular fpecies, to be picked up 

 in Mufgrave's book de Arthritide Sjmp- 

 tomatica : But they are exceedingly imper- 

 fe(5l ; and I do nor recoiled his mention- 

 ing any inftance where he knew the dif- 

 eafe, before it appeared in its natural 

 fhape in the extremities, or of there being 

 any probability of knowing it before- 

 hand. He only, after it is known, and 

 when it is turned into the iliape of the 

 anomala perf^a, direds the method of 

 cure. 



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