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tion, find they are peculiar to the Venereal Malady 
only. I have, I hope, fufficiently made it appear in my 
former Letter, that the firft degree of this Difeafe was 
anciently known among us by the name of the Brenn- 
ing, or Burning; and that it was the fame Thing 
with what we now call a Clap. The Symptoms, which 
are ufually its concomitants, are the Phymofis, and 
Faraphymofis, both which are accurately defcribed, 
and proper Remedies for them fet down by the be- 
fore mentioned John Arden Efq$ in another Manu- 
fcript of his, curioufly written upon Vellum, and beau- 
tifully illuminated. The imprudent Method of Cure 
of this firft degree of the Venereal Malady, is fome- 
times attended with a Caruncle in the Urethra, which 
was a Difeafe very common among us anciently.- For - 
not to mention other early writers, our before men- 
tioned Author gives us the Cafe of a certain Re&or, 
that had fuch a Subftance, like a Wart, growing in 
the Penis, which in another Place he fays frequently 
happens, and of another, which had fuch an Excrefcence 
as big as a fmall Strawberry, which (fays he,) pro- 
ceeded from the corrupted Matter, which remained a 
in the Urethra.- 
And indeed there is not any Symptom of the Ve- 
nereal Difeafe, that l find fo often mentioned as this - 
of the Caruncle, infomuch that it feems to have been * 
more common in thofe early times, than at this Day. 
But this muft be certainly owing to the fmooth and 
oily Remedies they were continually injecting,' which, 
by their relaxing and foftning the Fibres of the part,* 
muft necefiarily difpofe the contexture of fmall Blood 
Veflels, lodged at the bottom of the little Ulcerations, to 
fill with nutritious juices, and to extend themfelvesfo, as 
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