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sicians the nature or seat of his disorder.
During this period of great affliction to all his
friends, his malady was by many supposed
to be imaginary; and it was conceived, that,
if he would but exert himself, he could
shake it off. This instance, however, may-
serve to shew, that the patient best knows
what he suffers, and that few long complain
of bodily ailments without an adequate
cause; for at length (but not till about a fort-
night before his death) the seat of his dis-
order was found to be in his liver, of which
the inordinate growth, as it afterwards appear-
ed,65 had incommoded all the functions of
life; and of this disease, which he bore with
the greatest fortitude and patience, he died,
after a confinement of near three months, at
his house in Leicester-Fields, on Thursday
evening, Feb. 23, 1792.
63 On his body being opened, his liver, which ought to
have weighed about five pounds, was found to have in-
creased to an extraordinary size, weighing nearly eleven
pounds. It was also somewhat schirrous.
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