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under that Difea(e, have made it evident, that their 
Urethra is excoriated by the Virulency of the Matter 
they receive from the infed:ed Woman ; and this Ex- 
coriation or Ulceration is nor confined co the OJHoU 
or Mouths of the GlanduU Mu[co[£, as has been late- 
ly thought, but may equally alike attack any part of 
the Urethra not beyond the reach of the impelled ma« 
lignant Matter. The Heat before deferibeJ, which 
thefe Perfons are fenfible of, as well now as formerly, 
is a Confequenc of the excoriated Urethra ; for the 
Saks contained in the Urine mud neceflarily prick and 
irritate the nervous FiJ?rillx, and excite a Heat in thofe 
Parts of the Urethra which are diveded of its natural 
Membrane ; which Heat will always be obferved to be 
more or lefs, as the Salts are diluted with a greater 
or lefs Quantity of Urine ; a thing I have often ob* 
ferved in Perfons that have laboured under this Infir- 
mity in hot Weather, when the perfpirable Matter be- 
ing thrown od in greater Quantities, the Salts bear a 
greater Proportion to the Quantity of Urine, and there 
by make its Difcharge at that Time fo much the more 
painful and troublefom. 
Thus we fee this very early and plain Defeription 
of this Difeafe among us, to be entirely conformable 
to the latcd and mod exacd Anatomical Difeoveries. , 
Here is no Tone of the Tefiiclcs depraved, according 
ioTrajanus ?etromus\ no Exulceration of the Faraflatx, 
according to Ror^dtUtius ; no Ulceration of the SemR 
?ul Fejfels, according co P Uterus \ no Seat of the Dif- 
cafe in the Feficulx Seminales or ProfiateS, according to 
Bartholin-, not in thofe Parts and the Tedicles at the 
fame Time, according to our Countryman Wharton and 
others, who have falfly fixed the Seat of this Difeafe,. 
and whole Notions, in this refpedl:, are now judly ex* 
ploded ; but a fing|e and true Defeription of it, and- 
