200 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS' 



G A S E III. 



*The Cafe of a Gentleman^ luhoy after recover' 

 ing of the Gravel andafiHaemoptoe, died of 

 an Aneiirifm of the Aortdy h) Sir John 

 Pr INGLE, Baronet^ M. D. Pkyfician to 

 her Majcjl-j^ F. R, S. and Fellow of the 

 Royal College of Phyficians at Edinburgh, 



An officer of diflinction, in the forty- 

 firft year of his age, received a wound at 

 the battle of Fountenoy, 1 745 j and, from, 

 the long confinement to his bed, on that 

 occafion, became firft fnbjecl to the gra- 

 vel, with which he was afflided for fome 

 years after. During that time, he had 

 feveral nephritic paroxyfms, attended 

 with ficknefs and vomiting, and a dif- 

 cbarge of fand, fometimes of fmall cal- 

 culi of a rough furface, from the left 

 kidney. 



In the month of March 1751, this gen- 

 tleman was feized with a vomiting and 



