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XXXIX. An Account of a Suppreffion of Urine cured by a 
Puncture made in the Bladder through the Anus ; being 
an Extract of a Better from Dr. Robert Hamilton, 
Fellow of the Royal College of Phyficians at Edinburgh, 
and Phyfician at King’s-Lynn, in Norfolk, to Sir John 
Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. 
R * ] x776 23 ’ T W AS fent for on the 25th of March, 17 74, 
A to vilit james Wilkinson, of about thirty- 
one years of age, the fon of a farrier in this town, who 
had laboured under a fuppreffion of urine for three 
days. 
The account this man gave of himfelf was, that he 
had been fourteen years a foldier in a regiment of foot, 
but had been difcharged the preceding year as unfit for 
fervice, on account of this diforder, to which he had been 
long iubjeCt, and which was fuppofed to originate from 
a (tone in the neck of his bladder; that, about twelve 
years before his difcharge, he had contracted a gonor- 
rhoea, which had been badly cured; that, from that pe- 
riod, he had become afflicted with frequent fuppreffions 
of urine, and that every return had been of longer dura- 
tion than the former; that when the fuppreffion had 
continued fome time, he had been riled to go to the Rcei- 
mental Ilofpital, and to Ray till it was removed; and that, 
bleeding, 
