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but on the abatement of his pain, he became from that time subject to fits of 

 the colic, in which he said his bowels seemed to be drawn to his back-bone, 

 and usually received ease by binding his waist as tight as he could. He had also 

 frequent recourse to Geneva, and such liquors, for relief, but seldom found 

 any, till a swelling, as large as a hen's egg, appeared like a rupture in his right 

 groin. These fits were not of above 24 hours duration, but the inguinal tumour 

 lasted 2 or 3 days. He was often afflicted with stitches under his left breast, 

 which were removed by bleeding. 



But in the middle of Nov. 1735, his colic became so violent, that he could 

 not lie in his bed, nor sleep without opiates. Nov. 21, Dr. B. found him in 

 the use of some carminative pills sent by an apothecary. He had frequent 

 retchings to vomit, and was very costive. His pains seemed confined to the 

 intestinal region, and were most acute in the evening, continuing to harass him 

 till 5 or 6 in the morning. His pulse beat seldom under 100 in a minute, at 

 night generally above. He was not very hot nor thirsty. His urine at this 

 time was rather defective in quantity, than amiss in respect of colour or sepa- 

 ration. His tongue was foul towards the root, but not very white. 



After this, his disorder resembled a nephritic one, his chief complaint being 

 of pain about the region of the kidneys, and along the descent of the ureters. 

 The pain removing from the loins fixed itself at the os pubis and in the thighs 

 Nov. 29, but being abated about the os pubis by proper medicines, the pain 

 afterwards mostly afflicted the left thigh and hip. P>om this time he generally 

 sat up in his bed, leaning forward to the left, and for the most part cross-legged, 

 finding himself easiest in this posture. He could not lie any time on his right 

 side. The quantity, colour, and sediment of his urine, much the same now as 

 when he was in health. It was made without the pain, which, soon after the 

 nephritic symptoms commenced, he complained of at the root of the penis. 

 And now his disorder resembled the lumbago and sciatica, affecting the left 

 side mostly; whereupon, Dec. 2, he was put in the use of a diuretic and ape- 

 rient electuary, with terebinthinate clysters. To this time he had very few 

 stools without clysters, and those generally very small and fetid. Dec. 5, the 

 fever and pain increasing, a cooling aperient apozem, with a paregoric draught 

 pro re nata, were continued till Dec. Q, when examining the thigh where the 

 pain now afflicted him most. Dr. B. found some small scirrhi in the groin, 

 which were sensible enough to the touch, though not to the sight; and from 

 that time apprehending him of a scrophulous habit he prescribed accordingly. 



Dec. ] 8, he first mentioned a tumour he had discovered near the navel. It 

 appeared not as he sat, but when laid on his back, there was a protuberance 

 larger than a turkey's egg, 4 finger's breadth on the left side of the navel, ex- 



