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though it is common to feveral other dif- 

 tempers ? There are few difeafes that can 

 be diftinguirned by one fign, without 

 joining other circumftances along with 

 it. All that I contend for, is, that this 

 fymptom, when joined with other marks 

 of ihe difeafe, may afTiii us in diftin- 

 guifhing the arth>itis anomda vnpeyfeC' 



There is one {ingularity in the arthri- 

 tic ftrangury, or ftoppage ot water, to be 

 noticed, which is, that, though blifters 

 are very apt to produce an ordinary ftran- 

 gury ; yet, in this one, blifters applied to 

 the ankles, io far as I have obferved, are 

 one of the beft remedies for removing it. 



II. 



When arthritic people are feized with 

 a vomiting, upon the gout's leaving the 

 extremities too fuddenly, I have obferved, 

 that it was commonly a whitifti, gelati- 

 nous, or pituitous kind of ftuff which was 

 thrown up, like v,'hat is mentioned in the 



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