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the bowels, and fothedliEculcy of miking 

 water be the only fymptom. But my pa- 

 tients had all of them, at leaft at times, if 

 not chiefly, afFedlions of the ftomach or 

 guts. I do not fay either, that, when the 

 gout is lodged in the ftomach or guts, 

 the ftoppage of urine is a conftant at- 

 tendant upon it; I would only fay, that 

 it is often fo. The ftoppage or dif&caky 

 of -urine, mentioned above, is often fo 

 ilight, that it may be termed more pro*- 

 perly a dribbling ot urine; the perfoa be- 

 ing only longer about making of it than 

 ordinary. And the ufuai flightaefs of 

 this fymptom is the caufe that few pa- 

 tients, efpecially female ones, will mention 

 it to their phyficians, unlefs they are par- 

 ticularly queftioned about it. 



It may be objedled, that a ftoppage of 

 water is an ordinary lymptom in fe- 

 veral other difsafes ; and, confequently, 

 that it is too equivocal a fign to be made 

 ufe of as a diagnoftic in the arthritis am- 

 mala. But is not a pain of the fide al- 

 lowed to be the chief fign of a pleurify, 



thougl^ 



