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either willfully or by accident, we have the authority of Sen- 
mrtus and others ; one Mr. Cameron an epifcopal Divine in 
Scotland in a frolick fwallowed half a crown and found no in- 
convenience thereby 5 and amongft the rarities in the anatomy 
hall aiLcyden there is preferved a knife ten inches long, which 
was cut out of a peaiant's flomach, and he lived eight years 
after it. Stones generated in the ftomach excite horrid pains 5 
but there are fcarce any clear figns by which they can be 
diftinc^uiihed from others, except the continuance of the pain j 
fonietimes they are ejected by vomit, and fometimes they 
adhere to the bottom of the ftomach j that ftones are alfo form- 
ed in all other parts of the body, we are aflfured by manifold 
obfervations and experience, as in the brain, kidneys, ureters, 
gall-bladder, at the root of the tongue, knee, even in the 
heart itielf, and in the nerves : But ftones are more commonly 
formed in the kidneys and bladder, becaufe thefe veffels are 
more properly defigned to feparate and contain the Serum of 
the bloody and for that reafon ftones in the reins and Vcfir.a 
urinaria are more troublefome to perfons atflidled therewith, 
than in any other part of the body, i . Becaufe the parts are 
more fenfible. 2 Becaufe they ftop the paifage for evacuat- 
ing the Serum that is continually feparating from the blood, and 
by confequence diftend the veffels, which occafions horrid 
pains. 
Stones are not only found in human bodies, but alfo in feve- 
ral parts of other animals, as bezoar-ftone in the ftomach of a 
fort of goal in both the Indies^ as alfo in the ftomach of mon- 
keys, which is efteemed the beft^ there is alfo a kind of bezoar, 
called cow-bezoar, found in the ftomach of a cow 5 HippoUthus 
found them in the ftomach of horfes3 j^gagropila in the Ca- 
pra Alpina^ &c. 
Anenx> Way of cutting for the Stone 5 hy a Hermit in France, 
Initio Obfervations by M, Buftiere. Phil. Tranf. N" 250. 
p. 100. 
BRother JameSy a Hermit in France^ in extraiSling the 
ftone out of the bladder, ufes a fteel ftaft'much bigger 
and (horter than thofe which are commonly made ufe of, it is 
fhorter from the top to the bending of it, and it bends more 
than ours 3 his Conductor h flenderer, and longer than ours, the 
point that goes into the bladder being of the figure of a lo- 
zenge, is wide and open in its extremity 5 his Forceps has 
longer branches than ours, but the holds of them are ihorter 
and 
