34<5 ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 



and collegue Dr. Flummery advice, he defi- 

 red my affiftance. We were told by the lad, 

 who was greatly emaciated and very weak, 

 that fome years paft he had not had the vo- 

 miting, but found a hard painful /z/wor above 

 the left groin, which fometimes fliifted place 

 a little, where he fancied often he felt fome- 

 thing like the ftriking of two hard bodies on 

 each other. He had been of late much fa- 

 tigued with tenejtniis. Sometimes he had 

 no excretion of faces for feveral days, and 

 often he could fearce make any water, and 

 that only ia drops. During two. days before 

 our vifit, the teiiefmiis was conftant, and he 

 felt fomething hard within the reBiim near 

 to the a?iuSj which he and feveral] others had 

 endeavoured in vain, to bring away with their 

 fingers. 



On extracfting this fubftance with aj^r- 

 eeps, fuch as is ufed for extracting flones 

 from the bladder, he was much eafier than 

 he had been of a confiderable time. Next 

 day, he pafled two other balls, and on each of 

 the two following days, a ball, which he could 

 not force out at the anus, was extracted with 

 thejorceps. After this, he had no uneafi- 



nefs, 



