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Feiiis ; an<^ the Calculus Podagra, He then Confix 

 fiders the component parts of that F^x Chyli^ or 

 Lixivium^ the Urine^ and the changes to which it 

 is liable, in fmell, tafte, and colour, by the dif- 

 ferent ingefta ; under which article he mentions a 

 fmgular fa6l of a gentleman, who after having 

 laboured under an inveterate acidity at the fto- 

 mach, for which he had taken large quantities of 

 chalk, found his urine altered fo as to have entire- 

 ly a milky appearance. In confidering the im- 

 mediate generation of the Calculus^ he adopts the 

 Boerhaavian theory, and afcribes it to chryjlalliza- 

 tion : tl>is leads him to confider all thofe circum- 

 ftances which favour and accelerate this mode of 

 concreting, and to feek for fomewhat analogous 

 thereto in the human body, as predifpofing caufes 

 to this malady; which he finds in Atonia^ and the 

 wfe of acid and fermented liquors. He finilhes 

 the theory by fome curious and apt refledions on 

 the great analogy between this diforder and the 

 gout, and their tranfitions. 



In the therapeutic part, notwithftanding all that 

 had been written relating to the power of alkaline 

 medicines in diffolving the conneding' gluten, 

 and thus promoting the decompolition of the CaU 

 tuluSy the author does not allov^ them fo much 

 merit as hath been attributed to them by many 

 writers. He is inclined to give more efficacy to 

 bitters, particularly as Prophyla5fics^ from the idea 

 of their ftriking more immediately at the Atonia j 

 and adduces two examples, communicated to him 

 •by the Prefident LiNN^us himfelf, of the ufe of the 



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