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had been given in that time without any 
benefit. 
His father, one of the town-officers or 
ferjeants, having then afked my worthy 
friend and colleague Dr Plummer’s advice, 
he defired my affiftance. We were told 
by the lad, who was greatly emaciated 
and very weak, that, fome years paft, he 
had not had the vomiting, but found a 
hard painful tumor above the left groin,. 
which fometimes fhifted place a little,, 
where he fancied often he felt fomething 
like the ftriking of two hard bodies.on 
each other. He had been of late much 
fatigued with cenefmus, Sometimes he had 
no excretion of feces for feveral days, and. 
often he could fearce make any water, and 
that only in drops. During two days 
before our vifit, the teze/mus was conftant, | 
and he felt fomething hard within the 
‘redum near to the as, which he and fe- 9 
veral others had endeavoured in vain to — 
bring away with their fingers. - 
Ow extracting this fubftance with a for- — 
ceps, fuch as is ufed for extracting ftones © 
from the bladder, he was much eafier than. — 
he 
