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time, the floncs were plainly heard to drop down one after 
another. 
When his body was bound, he vomited all he eat and drank, 
to prevent which, he commonly kept it open with whey ^ as he 
lav a-ht-d, the ilones would Ibmetimes get up, as the patient 
expreiTed it, ahnofl: to his heart, and give him great uneafinels ; 
.nnd at luch times he was obliged to get up upon his knees, or 
ftand upright, and then he could hear them drop, and he always 
reckoned above 1005 he was fo dilabled by thele ftones, that he 
could not work but with pain, and then he felt the fame at night, 
and next day a great forenefs in the bottom of his belly, and 
voided large quantities of blood by ftool^ he had been under the 
hands of leveral Qiiacks, fbme had vomited him with Stibiumy 
and purged him ^ others purged and glyflered him, but all the 
medicines they made uTe of, could never bring one Hone fron> 
him. 
Dr. Shane obferves, that fome people, who fee birds languifh, 
unlefs they fwallow gravel or fmall ftones, take up an opmion, 
that the fwallowing of Hones helps the ftomach to digeft their 
food; but the Do61cr always oppoled this practice, becaufe, tho' 
the ftomachs or gizzards of birds ( having no teeth to grind their 
food ) are made very ftrong, mufcular, and defended in the infide 
with a coat, by the help of which, and thefe ftones, their food 
16 ground; yet the ftomachs of men being very different, it is not 
reaibnable to think thefe ftiould be of any ufe to them : The 
Doflor knew one Mr. Klngsmill, who for leveral years ufed to 
fwallow nine ftones at a time, and that once every day, without 
any injury; they were near as large as walnuts, roundifh and 
linooth, and he found they always pafred5 but at laft he died 
luddenly. 
Some 1'boughts and 'Experiments concerning Vegetation 3 hy 
1)r. J. Woodward. Phil.Tranf. ]N^° 253. p. 195. 
TH E ancients generally have afcribed to earth the produ>51ion 
of animals, vegetables, and all other bodies; but leveral of 
the moderns, and fome of very great note too, have given their 
fuffrage in behalf of water; my Lord )Sacon being of opinion, 
that/br nourijloment of vegetables the 'mater is alviofi all in alh 
atid that the earth doth but keep the plant upright, andfave it 
from over heat and over cold ; others are more exprcfs, and aflert 
that water is the only principle, or ingredient in all natural 
things 3 they fuppole, that by a procefs of nature, which cannot 
be 
