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had no reafon to doubt that my patient's 

 idiftemper was the venereal lues ; upon 

 which, I raifed a faUvation with tiwc. ditlc, 

 in the courfe whereof, all the fymptoms 

 gradually difappeared. I then put him 

 upon a courfe of the pil. jEthhpk. and de- 

 co6lion of the woods; by which means, 

 he feeming to be very well, I flattered my- 

 felf that the difeafe vyas intirely eradica- 

 ted. He had no complaints for above 

 jtwelve months ; but then he began to feel 

 the old pricking pains, efpecially in his 

 Jegs ; and, in a fhorc time, he difcovered 

 a fwelling on the mofl prominent part of 

 his ihin-bone, about the bignefs of a wal- 

 nut, though flat ; with fuch fcabs, &g. 

 as were formerly mentioned : And all this 

 (as he told me) without reafon to fufpecfl 

 a new infe<5lion. 



In fhort, he applied to me a fecond 

 time, and having advifed with a phyfici- 

 an, very eminent in his profeffion, h? de- 

 fired me to put him upon a new courfe 

 of mere, duk, but to give fuch fmall do- 

 fes, at fuch intermediate diftances, as to 

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