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his importunity to undertake it ; and having prepared him as 
he thought proper, he heoan with his knife, cutting gradually 
upon the' region of the kidney affected, till the blood dirturbed 
the operation, fo that he could not finifh it at that attempt^ 
wherefore drefTing up the wo and till the next day, he then re- 
peated and accomplifhed it, by cutting into the body of the kid- 
ney, and taking thence two or three linall ftones, he dreilcd it 
up again 5 from this inftant he was freed from the feverity of the 
pain, and in a reafonable time was able to walk about his cham- 
ber, having been in no danger either from a flux of blood or fever 5 
Marc bet ti continued to drefs the wound for a confiderable time, 
but was not able to clofe it up, it foon becoming fiflulous from 
the continual flux of the urine thro' the Sinus ^ but being in all 
other refpefts reftored to his former health and vigour, and the 
matter difcharged bemg little in quantity, he took leave of the 
profeflbr, and returned to Venice under the care and m.anagement 
of his wife, who, one morning, as ilie was drefling the lore, 
imagined flie felt fomething hard and rugged, as ilie wiped it 5 
upon which examining a little more carefully with her bodkin, 
ihe found it to be a llone of the figure and magnitude of a date- 
flonej whith being removed, he never after complained of the 
leaft uneafinefs in that part. The matter difcharged was but 
little in quantity, but always diluted with, and fmelling Itrong 
of urine ^ the orifice would Ibmetimes clofe for 9 or 4 days toge- 
ther, and then the matter would make its way thro' the common 
paflages with the urine, yet Vv'ithout any difficulty or pain, he 
applied nothing to the orifice but a clean linnen rag 5 he was able 
to perform all the fundtions of life^ and to undergo any fatigue, 
tho' upwards of 50 years of age. 
Obfervations in Lincolnfliire; by Air, Chr. Merret. Phil. 
Tranf. N° 223. p. 543. 
THAT part of the country of Lincoln^ that lies towards 
the Tea, is a level about 50 miles long , vi^. from Grimsby 
to Crowland, and ro miles in breadth from the lea 10 the Woulds 
or Hi'^b-lands. It may be divided, 
I. Into marfhes, extending from Grimsby to about TFai/j/Ieet, 
which abound in fcore of large iliecp, which yield a very lurty 
wool, or of a large ftaple, as it is called, three or four fleeces ufu- 
ally making a tod of 28 pounds 5 feveral hundred loads are 
yearly carried out of it into Norfolk, Suffolk, the north and weil 
countries in great packs, called pockets, of about 2500/. weigh?-, 
and there manufadured. 
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