£,6G ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Art. XX. 



Some Ohfe^'uations onthe fameSuhjeSi, by the 



late Re B E R T Wh YTT, M. D F. R. S, 



Felloiv of the Royal College of Phyficians^ 



and Pyofefjor of Medicine in the Univer" 



Jity of Edinbwgh* 



AS I had occafion, feveral years (ince, 

 to write fome obfervations on the 

 many diforders occafioned by an irregu- 

 lar or innperfe(fl gout, in order to illuftrate 

 another fubjedl with which I thought it 

 a gocd deal connetfled, I have, fince that 

 time, been particularly attentive to that 

 matter, and have formed fo much the fame 

 opinion with Dr Clerk of the effects of 

 the arthritis anomala^ that, in one fenfe, 

 at lead, I am the mod unfit of any in 



the 



