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to be miftaken at firft for an Arthritic Diforder, or a 
- Nephritic one, either from Ulcer, Calculus , or both, 
or for an Iliac PaJJion . 
The Diagnoftics therefore of a Cancer within the 
Abdomen , deduced from the preceding Hiftories, 
fecm to be as follows: 
A naturally {lender Habit of Body, accompanied 
with fome fcrophulous or fcirrhous Tumor, together 
with a pale Complexion, and coftive Difpofition : If 
fuch an one, at an Age above Twenty, has received a 
violent Contufion on the Loins, and, negleding all 
Remedies, is fome time afterwards attacked with 
exceffive Pains, afflicting now the Colon , then the 
urinary Paffages, Spine of the Os Innominatum , and 
Tubes, at various times, always increafed by all In- 
ternals or Externals, by which the Heat of the Body is 
increafed, efpecially Terebinthinate Clyfters ; but 
mitigated by fome Singularity of Pofture, in which 
the Patient conftantly abides j if thefe be attended 
with an Hedic Fever, without the ufual Degree of 
Heat in the Skin, of Whitenefs or Drynefs of Tongue, 
or Complaint of Third, and alfo without Cough, 
high-coloured Urine, or vitiated Refpiration; if ac- 
companied likewife with an Affedion of the fper- 
matic Vcffcls, of the Thighs, and frequent pleuritic 
Pains; the Blood always abounding with tough Size; 
if Opiates foon lofe their Effed, and only (as all other 
new Remedies not heating) feem to give Relief for 
Two or Three Days ; if Cathartics take Place, and by 
frequent Repetition do not produce a colliquative 
£ . Diarrhoea , and the moll palliative Remedies are nitrous 
Salts and Mercurial; may it not be concluded with 
much Probability, that fuch a Cafe is owing to fome 
fuch Caufe? May it not be pronounced an internal 
Cancer? III. Ener- 
