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fituated on the Bayik ftde, near the Steves, was a Book 
written upon Vellum, the Title of which runs thus j 
mu begrnne fte O;itiuiance0, Eulcg, ant) cu= 
Oimug, as toell fo? tlje ^altiatton of pannes 
itf, as fo;i to afctetoe ma;tp ^pfchicfs ano 3in= 
conbniieius tljat Oaplep be lik tbece fo.2 to fall 
otote, to be risbtfuUp liept,.anD owe Ctccution of 
them to be ooit unto any laerCoiiue toptbin tbe 
fame* One of the Articles begins thus ; De his qui 
cu^odiunt Mulieres h.ihentes Nfphandam infirmitattm. It 
goes on, Item, Cbat no Steto=boloci: keep noo 
man toptbin pis e;ous.tbat peUp anp S)pckneire 
of BRENNiNG. but tpit (pe 6 e putte out upon 
tpe pepne of makeit a fpne unto tpe lo?t) of a 
pUnO^ell 0 pplpn 9 S. This i« taktn from the Origi- 
nal Manuferipe which was preferv’cK in the Bifliop’s 
Court, fuppos’d to be written about the Year 1430. 
From thefe Orders we may obferve the Frequency of 
the DiQemper at that Time ; which, with other In- 
conveniencies, was oaplep lik tpere fo? to fall otDte^ 
and the Greatnefs of the Penalty, as the Value of Mo- 
ney then was, that is laid on it, proves it was no tri- 
fling or infignificanc thing. 
But the bare Proof of there having been anciently 
fuch a Difeafe as was called the 'BUCniUS? may be 
thought to be infuflicient, unlefs we were perfedtly 
aflured what it was, and how it was in thofe Times 
deferibed : I fhall therefore do it from an unqueflionai- 
ble Authority, which is that of 'john Arden, Efq; who 
was one of the Surgeons to our King Richard \\. and 
likewife to King Henry IV. In a curious Manuferipe 
of his upon Vellum, he defines it to be, a certain in- 
ward Heat and Excoriation of the Urethra-, which Dc- 
feription gives us a perfect Idea of what we now call 
^Qlaf \ for frequeat Dif]e.( 5 fions of thofe that laboured 
undei^ 
