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second do^e he discharged a great quantity of urine, with a very feculent sedi- 

 ment. About the beginning of November idgiy being costive, he eat mallow- 

 roots and currants boiled, and mixed with butter, his usual laxative* medicine ; 

 in a little time after eating it he was much disordered, and complained of an 

 oppression from wind ; at length the wind (as he termed it) settled at the bottom 

 of his belly, and in a very little time with his urine he emitted some of the 

 herbs, with above 40 currants ; a few days after he discharged the same way 

 several parsley leaves, which he had eaten a little before. The physician being 

 shown the patient's urine, he at first thought that part of his faeces had been 

 evacuated that way, and that some latent ulcer had made a passage through the 

 intestinum rectum into the bladder, but he found it otherwise; for there was 

 no factor in the urine, he had no tenesmus, no bloody, nor purulent dejections ; 

 but to satisfy himself further in this particular, he ordered him a clyster tinc- 

 tured with indigo, which he retained above half an hour, but his urine was not 

 at all discoloured with it. He prescribed for him some pills, two of which came 

 away in his urine, of an oblong form, about the size of the end of a goose- 

 quill. Some time after there came away with his urine a piece of a raisin. He 

 lived till Midsummer J 692, in which time he discharged at divers times parts 

 of roots, and other things he had eaten. 



Diemerbroeck, Farfax, T. Bartholine, O. Borichius, N. Blegny, Mr. Pec- 

 quet, and others are of opinion, that there is a more latent passage for the 

 urine to the emulgents, &c. than those commonly supposed ; that they think it 

 appears so by divers phaenomena and experiments they have made, and that 

 their objections against the common opinion are insuperable. It is certain, that 

 the matter of an empyema has been discharged with the urine, and to that 

 purpose diuretics are used in vulneraries, &c. See Malpigh. N. Blegny, Wise- 

 man, &c. x\nd I have known a large ripe aposthumation in the thigh of a 

 woman, suddenly sink, jind all the matter come away by urine. Mr. Leyser 

 has the like story in his observations. See Philos. Trans. N° 50. A boy, of 

 about 6 years old, was once brought to me, who discharged most of his urine 

 from an orifice in the navel. I remember Blasius, or Veslingius, relates the 

 like, and accounts for it. 



Of an unusual Blackness of the Face ; and of several Extra- Uterine Foetuses. 

 By Mr. James Yonge^ F. R. S. N° 323, p. 424. 



The relation I sent of a hairy bunch ejected by urine from a nephritic woman, 

 I find did not meet that regard and credit which I think it well deserved. I own 

 that Mr. Leuwenhoeck's objections seem to have some strength, but cannot 



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