Of OXFO%V~SHI%E. 131 



preferring the glans and pr<eputium penhhumani ; but without 

 any fr&num faftened to the urethra ; Of which but of modefty 

 I have given no fculptures. 



154. To thefe add another 'ft one which we may call LaphKit* 

 phriticns, not from any likenefs either in colour or effeft to the 

 whitijh green Jioneukd in diftempers of the Kidneys (though the 

 fignature it carries might perfwade a tryal) but from the colour 

 and figure it has of the Kidney of an Animal, with a trunck. of 

 one of the Vreters defcending from the hollow of it, as in Tab. 8. 

 Fig.^. This fione was lent me by the Reverend and univerfally 

 Learned Dr. Ralph Bathutft , Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, and 

 Veanof Wells, one of the moft cordial Encouragers of this de-* 

 fign ; who found it hanging to an Oyfter by that part which repre- 

 Tents the Vreter, which was then fo foft that he eafily cut it a~ 

 way with his knife ; but within lefs than an hour (like the Gorgo-> 

 nia of Pliny *) it grew as hard as the reft of the ftone, which I 

 guefs may be equal to that of a Pebble : preferving, I juppofe, its 

 native foftnefs whil'ft it enjoyed the faltfieams in the heap of 

 Oyfters, and not hardning .till expofed to the purer Air ; which 

 evidently fhews (though' the opinion be exploded of Coral) 

 that there are indeed fome other Sea things, foft under water, or 

 whil'ft they enjoy the fteams of it, that as foon as expofed to the 

 freiher Air, become prefently fionts. 



155. Next the ftones that relate to either of the three Ventrfa 

 cles, come we next tofuch as concern the Artws, or other mem* 

 hers of the body : Amongft which, I have one dug out of a Quar- 

 ry in the Parifti of Cornwell, and given me by the ingenious Sir 

 Thomas Ptnnyilon, that has exactly the figure of the lowermoft 

 part of the thigh-hcne of a Man, or at leaft of fome other Ani- 

 mal, with the capita femorh inferiora, between which are the an- 

 terior (hid behind the fculpture') and the larger pofterior finws, the 

 feat of the ftrong ligament that rifes out of the thigh, and that 

 gives fafe paflage to the veffels defcending into the leg : And a lit- 

 tle above the finws, where it feems to have been broken oflr^ fhew^ 

 ing.the marrow within of a (Lining (par-like fubftance , of its 

 true colour and figure, in the hollow of the bone, as in Tab. 8^ 

 Fig. 4. In compafs near the capita femora juft two foot, and at 

 the top above the finws (where the thigh-bone is as fmallas any 



* Nat. Hift.lib. 37. cap. 10. 



R 2 where) 



