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would be voided without any pain, such stones being much smaller than those 

 which came away daring the use of the Pyrmont waters. After he had been 

 afflicted with this complaint (bloody urine) for 2 years together, it was at length 

 entirely removed by the help of physic. He then discontinued the use of me- 

 dicines, thinking them no longer necessary ; but from that time he has been 

 constantly troubled with strangury. The urine, which is voided in very small 

 quantities with extreme pain, is of a ropy quality and thick consistence, like 

 paste made from flour and water. The patient nevertheless enjoys a good 

 appetite, sleeps sufficiently, and feels no pain in any other part of the body. 



In his reflexions upon this case, Dr. V. supposes that the stones which this 

 patient voided, had not been formed previously to the use of the Pyrmont 

 waters ; but were produced ex croco minerali, which those waters contain. 



Observations on dissecting the Body of a Person troubled with the Stone. By 

 Dr. Per rot IVilliams, of Haver ford West. N° 337, p. 326, 



Mr. William Bowen, of the town and county of Haverford West, aged be- 

 tween 40 and 50, having been for about 7 years severely afflicted with the 

 usual symptoms of the stone in the kidnies and bladder, viz. bloody urine after 

 exercise, strangury, &c. died in May 1722. On opening the body there 

 were found in the bladder 6 smooth oval stones, exactly of the same figure, 

 and nearly of the same magnitude: there were also 3 cells in each kidney, the 

 figure of each corresponding to that of the stones: the ureters were so preter- 

 naturally distended, as very easily to admit the largest of the stones to pass from 

 the kidney to the bladder. The other viscera appeared in their natural state. 



Dissection of a Man who died of the Stone in the Kidnies. By P. Hardisway, 

 M.D. N° 337, p. 327. Trarislated from the Latin. 



A man, about 70 years of age, was seized, on the 19th of October 1722, with 

 a violent pain of the bowels, accompanied with vomiting and dysury. The pain 

 was so excessive, that he was obliged to keep his body bent; he lay groaning be- 

 fore the fire day and night. On the 6th day of the attack there was a total sup- 

 pression of urine. He then complained of a painful tightness about the hypo- 

 chondria, as if a rope was tied round him. He afterwards complained of a 

 distressing sensation of weight in the bladder, as if (to use his own expression) 

 a large turnip was within it. He died on the 12th day of this attack. 



On opening the body, no traces of calculi were discovered in the bladder; but 

 in each of the kidnies there was found a remarkable rough stone, which was 

 distributed by ramifications through the parenchyma, in such manner that it 



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