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paroxyfm was accompanied with violent 

 pains of the head and back, and great ficknefs 

 at the ftomach, and reaching. This firft at- 

 tack left very little fwelling in the left ancle. 

 From this fit, for the four following years, he 

 had this difeafe in the fame manner about 

 once a month, with a gradual increafe of the 

 left leg ; fo that it became eighteen or twenty 

 inches round the calf. After he w 7 as twenty- 

 two years of age, the attacks were five, fix, 

 feven, or eight times each year. From the 

 year 1764, being then about thirty-fix, he has 

 been irregularly attacked, fo me times in the 

 right, and fometimes in the left leg ; each 

 time the legs were left larger and larger. At 

 the age of thirty-nine the right leg was confi- 

 derably increafed in fize. In the centre of the 

 calf of this leg there arofe a lump as big as a 

 goofe's egg, which burft of itfelf, and difcharg- 

 ed a fluid as clear as water, in large quantity. 

 The fwelling abated, but each fucceeding at- 

 tack left the leg fo increafed in bulk, that at 

 this time it meafures thirty- fix inches in every 

 part of the leg, from below the knee to the 

 ancle. The feet of both legs are of their na- 

 tural fize. The left leg fneaftires twenty-fix 

 inches. The fwelling is very fmooth, except 



