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morning, as she was dressing the sore, fancied she felt something hard and 

 rugged, as she wiped it ; on which, examining a Httle more carefully with her 

 bodkin, she found it to he a stone, of the figure and magnitude of a date 

 stone ; which being removed, he never after complained of the least uneasiness 

 in the part. About 10 years after this he returned to London, where the 

 learned Dr. Tyson and myself were invited to see him ; and after we had 

 received this account from himself, he let us view the sore, which continued 

 open ; and permitted me without any complaint, the callosity being great, to 

 pass my probe so far into the sinus, that we concluded it reached into the 

 kidney : the matter it then discharged was but little in quantity, but always 

 diluted with and smelt strong of urine. The orifice would sometimes close 

 for 3 or 4 days together, and then the matter made its way through the com- 

 mon passages with the urine, yet without any difficulty or pain. There is no 

 question, but that there was a coalition of the kidney, and the psoas muscle. 

 When we saw it he applied nothing to the orifice but a clean linen rag, which 

 had a strong urinous scent. He was then as able in appearance, to perform 

 all the functions of life, and to undergo any fatigue, as any man of his years ; 

 being, as I conceive, upwards of 50, and was the next day to ride post 40 

 or 30 miles. I have heard that he is since dead, but could not be informed of 

 what disease.* 



On several Observables in Lincolnshire, not noticed by Camden, or any other 

 Author. By Mr. Christopher Merret, Surveyor of the Port of Boston. 



That part of the county of Lincoln, that lies towards the sea, is a level about 

 50 miles in length, viz. from Grimsby to Crowland ; and 10 miles in breadth, 

 from the sea to the wolds, or high lands. It may be divided : 



1st. Into marshes, extending from Grimsby to about Wainfleet, abounding 

 in store of large sheep, of a large staple, three or four fleeces usually making 

 a tod, of 28lb. Several hundred loads are yearly carried out of it into Norfolk, 

 Sutfolk, the north and west countries, in great packs, called pockets, of about 

 2500 lb. weight, and there manufactured. 



* This single instance, wherein an incision appears to have been made into one of the kidneys and 

 several stones taken thereout, ought not to embolden other surgeons to venture upon an operation so 

 difBcult to perform, and so uncertain in its consequences. Where, indeed, a calcuhis generated in 

 either of the organs destined to the secretion of urine, makes its way wholly or partially out of them 

 by producing an abscess 'hat points externally ; the opening of that abscess, and the exlnction ot the 

 renal calculus thereout, may be safely undertaken > but such an operation cannot properly be termed 

 ntjphrotomy. 



