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nuing for two or tlirise weeks, a hemi- 

 plegia, a mania, palpitation of the heart, 

 a troublefome itching of the fcrotum, a 

 dyfuria, a running from the urethra, and 

 a pain in the tefticles, 

 ■ I had a patient who never in his life 

 had been affeded with any venereal dif- 

 eafe, who, for feveral years, had a fmall 

 running from the urethra, which often 

 flopped for fbme weeks or months, and 

 then returned. As this perfon had once 

 had a fit of the true gout, and had many 

 fymptoms which befpoke the arthritis 

 anomala^ I was of opinion, that the run- 

 ning was occafioned by the arthritic hu- 

 mour falling particularly on the nerves 

 or veflels of the urethra ; whence the mo- 

 tion of the fluids in them mud have been 

 increafed, and confequently, the fecretion 

 from the nervous organs muft have been 

 more copious than ufunl. 



1 have met with three cafes of a pain 

 in the tefticles from an arthritic caufe. 

 In one of thefe, the left teRicle was much 

 fwelled ; but this fwelling went off, upon 



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