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•pofed to be the cafe: but I confefs this inference is 
not fatisfadory to me ; fince it is probable, if this 
was the foie caufe of their frnoothnefs, the fame ef- 
fect would probably be always produced, when at- 
tended with the fame degree of fridion. But as this 
may be confidered as a matter of mere fpeculation, 
I refer the decifon of this point to thofe of fuperior 
abilities. 
CASE. 
Mr. William Woodhams, a gentleman farmer, of 
a corpulent habit of body, in the 46th year of his 
age, now living in the parilh of Udimore, within 
three miles of Rye in Sufiex, was attacked about 
eight years ago with fevere complaints in his loins, 
accompanied with an incapacity of voiding his urine 
without the affiftance of proper medicines, which 
were adminiftered to him by a neighbouring apothe- 
cary for that purpofe. Thefe medicines had the de- 
fired effed : they promoted a fecretion, and an eva- 
cuation of urine ; which appeared to be loaded with 
a confiderable quantity of gravelly particles mixed 
with a mucus of a whitifh colour. In the fpace of 
three weeks he had perfedly recovered from this at- 
tack, and continued well for near five years after- 
wards, without any return of his complaint, except 
when he rode hard on horfeback, or drank more 
freely of ftrong liquors than ufual. At the expira- 
tion of five years he was feized with an acute fever, 
-of which he recovered in a few weeks. 
Very foon after his recovery from this illnefs, he 
began to complain of excefiive pain in voiding his 
urine, or upon going to ftool j which fymptoms 
were 
