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the venereal kind, he could fcarcely have 

 been cured by the method that was ufed, 

 or, at leaft, have fo long after continued 

 well. 



I vras afterwards informed, that Mr 

 De Sauvages, in his Pathologta Methodi" 

 ca *, among the different fpecie* of go- 

 norrhoeas, mentions the difeafe I fpeak 

 of, under the name oi gonorrhoea podagri- 

 ca. Accordingly, I found that he men- 

 tions it, but not that he had leen it ; as 

 he only fets down Muigrave as his autho- 

 rity. I have fince looked over Muf- 

 grave*s two books , but 1 could find no 

 fuch thing taken notice of in either of 

 them. 



I imagine I once met with the fame 

 difeafe in a young gentleman, about ten 

 years ago ; but, as 1 had neither the fame? 

 experience, nor the fame ideas about fuch 



difeafes 



* Edit. tert. Lugduni 1759, 8vo. The fame au^ 

 jtlior, in a later work, his Nofdogia Methodical Amflel. 

 1763, 8vo, where he ought to have taken particular 

 notice of it, makes no mendon of it at all ; I fup- 

 pofe, becauic he found atterwards, that there was no 

 fuch thing In Mufgrave's book. 



