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^he prohahle Caufes of the ^ain in Rheumatifms 5 and the 
Suppre'ljion of Urine, cured hy jdcidsj by 1)r. Baynard. 
Phil, trani: N° 215. p. rp. 
DR. 'Baynard was always of opinion, that the pains in a 
rheumatilm were not cauied by any laline or acid particles 
in the blood, ^c. but rather from its clamminefs and denfity 
diftending the veflels thro' which it pafles, which diftenfion 
produces thole fharp .^nd pungent pains, which rheumatick pati- 
ents lb generally complain of- for although the proper coats of the 
veins and arteries feem to be inlenlible in themielves, yet thofe thin 
membranes, which belet them, are of a mod exquifite lenfe, and 
full of lymphiedu6ts, uhich being dilated and ftrctched, caule an 
inflamatory iymptomatical fever, with continual Iweats, the blood 
being glutinous and fizy, as in quinfies and pleuriiies, and all 
other inflamatory diltempers 5 the fever is increaled by the great 
quantity of alcalical corrofive falts, lodging in the blood, caufing 
thirft, ^c. and not diluted and waThed off by urine, which is al- 
ways thick, turbid and high coloured, and almoft, if not wholly, 
devoid of any faline impregnations. To prove which, he fent fix 
quarts of a ilrong man's urine, in the height of a rheumatifm, to 
that ingenious artift Mr. George Aloult^ who chemically analifed 
it, found not above the 50th part of thole falts, ufually found in 
fuch a quantity of the urine of a Ibund perlon. 
A patient had laboured for feven or eight days under a total 
fuppreffion of urine 3 upon trying with the catheter, there was not 
the leaft appearance of a flone, nor a drop of water in his bladder 5 
whereupon, Dr. Saynard, iuppofing it might be the lame cale 
of which the learned T)v.H'ilkiriS died, caufed the patient to take 
a quantity of acids in a convenient vehicle • upon which, iecre- 
tion being prelently made, there was a great dilcharge of urine, 
and he was thereby reflored to his he,tlth3 and acids were found 
to be of lervice to other patients that laboured under fuppreffions 
of urine. 
I'be Bones of a Skeleton united iiHthoiit Articulation or Car- 
tilage-^ hy 'Dr. Bern. Connor. Phil. Tranl.' N° 215. p. 21. 
DR. Oj> -10}' had leen in France part of a human ikeleton, 
cnliiting of the Os Ilium, Os Sacrum^ the five Vertebrae 
of the loins, 10 of the back, 5 entire ribs on the right fide, and 
three ou thj left; the extremities of the other were clofely united 
to tlie tranfverfe apophyles of their l^ertebrce, M\ thefe bones, 
which 
