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$\ 14 MEDICAL man, inclined to be fat; a circum- ftance which you have taken notice of. He was 66 years of age when he died, and had been affli&ed with thefe complaints 6 or 7 years. In the former part of his life, he had had feveral very fevere attacks of the rheu- matifm; and therefore, this pectoral mufcle appearing to be fo particularly affected, this difeafe at its firft feizure, and for a confiderable time afterwards, pafled under the fame name; and therefore was, not much attended to *. At firft, for two or three years, he only felt a flight pain and tightnefs acrofs his breaft and arms, upon walk¬ ing a little fafter than ordinary. By flow and very imperceptible degrees, * This circumftance has ufually made both the patients themfelves, and thofe who attended them, imagine the complaint to be merely mufcular; and accordingly it has been named, gouty, rheumatic, or fcorbutic: but they could hardly have been fo deceived, had they confidered, that in the prefent cafe the pain is very deep feated below the Iternum. this$

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