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proceeded from a broken Crafis and Contexture, or, 
as it were, a thorough Dififolution of the whole Mafs 
of Blood : For I know very well, that you (hall now- 
and-then have feveral Streaks, and fometimes larger 
Quantities of Blood in the Urine, from the Acrimony 
ol the Spanish Flies , upon the Application of Blifters, 
which are frequently ufed, and fo frequently like- 
wife abfolutcly neceftary, in one or other of the 
Stages of this Diftemper, and yet the Patient fhall do 
well. And Dr. Browne, who was a worthy Prede- 
ceflor of mine in St. Bartholomew s Hofpital , and a 
Gentleman of Learning and Eminence in his Profcf- 
fion, gives an Account of a Gentlewoman, who lived 
in Hearis-yard, IVeftminfter , who made bloody 
Urine in the Small-pox , Four or Five Days together ; 
which made Dr. Needham , who attended her, to 
forfake her ; and yet fhe recovered : But they found 
afterwards, that this bloody Water was not occalioned 
by the Malignancy of the Diftemper, but by a fharp 
Stone, which was at that time defending from one 
of the Kidneys through the Ureters into the Bladder, 
and which fhe afterwards voided. This I have 
from fome Adverfaria of his, a good Number of 
which I have had the Fortune to be in PofTeftion of 
feveral Years, and amongft which there are feveral 
remarkable Cafes, that occurred to him during the 
Courfe of a long and extenlive Practice ,• and which 
I do not know, but may, fome time or other, be 
communicated to the Public, together with fome 
others that have happened to fall within the Compafs 
of my own Obfervation, fince I have had the Ho- 
nour to have fomething to do in the Faculty, in that 
Hofpital, and elfewhere. 
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