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Apparently, not alone among British writers.
"Among Edward Gibbon's maladies was gout. Gibbon is also believed to have suffered from an extreme case of scrotal swelling, probably a hydrocele testis, a condition that causes the scrotum to swell with fluid in a compartment overlying either testicle."
~ Wiki
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Scrotal Empire
-Gibbons, R.