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in drawing the Thigh forwards : Ike had a great Stupor 
in that Thigh, through a Compreffion of the Lumbal 
Nerves, which lay expofed imiiiediateiy under theintu- 
mified Kidney. 
I am apt to think, Cafes not unhke this often occur 
in the Pradice of Phyficians; and arecomn^only taken 
to proceed from a Stone or Stones in the Kidrxys or U- 
rerers, and might very well impofe on fagacious Prafti- 
tioners : iJut I conceive that unufual Pollure, in fuch 
like Cafes, as keeping the Body ereft, feems to diftin- 
guifh it; together with an indebiihtation of drawing 
the Thigh and Leg forwards. If thefe Symptoms 
do not conjunftly occur , yet by this w^e may be 
admoniftit, that Nephritical Diforders are nor, as is com- 
monly thought, owing to Stones, whither in the Kid- 
neys or Ureters. 
Beffoms Epidem^p, ixo. mentions a Cafe not unlike 
this, of an intumified Kidney, Mercatori Bcurlon Jo- 
lores implacahales ad Regionem Lienis & fere i^fra Vwhi* 
Ikum pene. Tumor ([uidam percipkbatur^ tandem tnte» 
riit, Non credebunt dolorm ejfe Nephritkum & tamen e- 
rat. At fit us dolor is & partis [decipielat, A per to Ca- 
davere in ventus ejl Ren infignis loco dimotus ad regio- 
Tiem lienis aut natura aut aliqua alia ^7 (Ji credere fas 
fit^ detrufus^ fic impofuit valde Medicis, Idem contigit 
Cardinali a Guifja Curabanf eum fplenicum pro Nephri' 
tico, Ren quadruplo major erat quam a Natura ejfe de^ 
leret. 
Cahrolius Obferv, XXVIIL at the latter end of his 
Alphahetum Anatomkum^ tells us of a Kidney he found 
impoftumated in a dead Body, which weighed fourteen 
Pound, containing much matter within a thick Cyftis. 
Some time after he fays he was called to a Patient, af- 
flicSted with great Pain in the Region of the Loins, 
which was fuppofed by his Surgeons and other Phyfici- 
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