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•and the Society, if I lay before you, and that learned 
body, a detail of the feveral particulars attending the 
cafe of fo very worthy, and excellent a member, 
collected as well from the belt enquiries I could make, 
as from the obfervations made by myfelf, who at- 
tended him in his laft hours, and affifted at the open- 
ing of his body. 
He had laboured under a great oppreflion of fpirits 
fora long time; and for feveral years before his death 
frequently complained of a pain in his back, fome- 
times attended with difficulty in the difcharge of his 
urine, which he apprehended to proceed from the 
gravel. 
On wednefday June the thirtieth 1762. he rode 
out for the air, and upon coming home complained 
of pain in his back, and made a large quantity of 
water. At five o’clock the next morning he 
found himfeif labouring under a total fuppreffion of 
urine, from which time he never voided any with- 
out the affiftance of the catheter. With its affift- 
ance however about a quart was drawn off every 
twelve hours, excepting one intermiffion; when 
upon account of the difficulty of introducing the 
catheter, none was drawn off from friday morning 
July the ninth, ’till eight o’clock on the faturday even- 
ing. But both before and after that time the urine 
was regularly drawn off every morning and even- 
ing to the time of his death, on the thirteenth of 
July- ... 
During his illnefs he often complained of pains in 
the abdomen. And his head was frequently difordered, 
efpecially when a ftool was coming away; but after 
.that had paffed off, he was always more cool and 
reafonable. 
