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difeafes at the time, I cannot be fo pofi- 

 tive about it ; having taken up the cafe 

 then in a different light. 



IV. 



I imagine, that the fluor albus may 

 fometimes be of the fame nature with the 

 difeafe which I have juft now mention- 

 ed, viz* the gonorrhoea arthritica. It is a 

 diftemper which women are exceffively 

 fubjedl to, though they very rarely fpeak 

 of it to their phyficians, unlefs it happens 

 to go to a great height. If the gout ap- 

 pears in that fhape in men, it is to be ex- 

 pelled that it would do fo much oftener 

 in women ; becaufe, for feveral reafons 

 it has a lefs chance of forming properly 

 in their extremities. Before it form well 

 and regularly in the feet, it requires to 

 be well nurfed with heat, and great at- 

 tention to be given it upon its firft ap- 

 pearance. But women very feldom do 

 this ; becaufe they either do not imagine 

 their fwellings can be gouty, on account 

 of their being attended with lefs pain 



than 



