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formed alfo on a burnet plumftone, which 

 he took out of the inteftine of a girl. 

 ^ Hijl. 5. From the fame Gentleman I like- 

 ways had a third concretion pretty like to, 

 but a little larger than, the one defcribed and 

 painted by Dr. Simfon in Med. EJf. 'vol. i. 

 art. 32. which, with three fuch others, he 

 took out of the inteftines of another patient.- 

 Each of them had a fmall ftone in the mid- 

 dle, the patient having formerly fwallowed 

 fmall ftones and pebbles, for what he called 

 a colic in his ftomach. 



The Dr. tells me, that all thefe three pa- 

 tients wafted, without being fick or lofing 

 their appetite. They were fond of fleih for- 

 food, and were averfe to flops. They feldom 

 were free of borborygmi^ which made the 

 abdomen to change almoft conftantly its ap- 

 pearance, the parts of it rifing and (inking 

 as the air went from one place to another. 



HiJl. 6. In a ball of this kind eight inches 

 one way and fix the other, taken from a 

 Gentleman's inteftines, whofe hiftory I do 

 not know, the nucleus is a little round piece 

 of wood about the fize of a common hazle 

 nut. 



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