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in the capit coli there was a ball of more 

 than feven inches circumference, with a de- 

 preffion at oppofite ends. The inteftine had 

 contraded fo much at the fide of the ball next 

 to the cavity of the colony that I could not 

 force it thro* the aperture there, but was 

 obliged to cut the fac in which it was lodged 

 to take it out. , . ; ;: 



The ball had no tartarous cruft on its fur- 

 face, and when it was cut thro', its nucleus 

 was a chalky or limy fubftance about the lize 

 of a common pea. 



Hijl. 3. Dr. 'John Ste'venfon Phyfician gave 

 me a concretion fix inches in circumference, 

 the nucleus of which is a plumftone, taken 

 out of the inteftines of a boy of five years old.: 

 Tho' the ftone had been fwallowed long be- 

 fore the boy's death, the kernel of it was 

 fre/li when the ftone was taken from the 

 middle of the ball. A clyfter had brought 

 i^way feveral other plumftones from this boy 

 fome months after the plums had been 

 eat. 



Hiji. 4. Dr. Steven/on alfo gave me ano- 

 ther fuch concretion, v/hich has four fiat 

 fides with feveral deprefiions in them, mea- 

 f|}|:ing about five inches in circumference, 



formed 



