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Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“A defect in the bladder caused me, during my early years, to suffer an almost continual retention of urine”
Confessions, Book VIII, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
The congenital urinary complaint that returned after the Vincennes walks as nephritic colic and chronic retention.
Citation: "A defect in the bladder caused me, during my early years, to suffer an almost continual retention of urine" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book VIII, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q11)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
