Ago rHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1741. 



that they could scarcely separate it from the pot ; at other times so pliant, that 

 you might take it up a great height with a sprig of a broom, oi- a feather, and 

 so fall down again like a lump into the pot. 



She had for a considerable lime voided one or more of these hairy crustaceous 

 substances every day or night ; looking, when first voided, like hair and co- 

 ralline ; and her pains were so exquisite, that they were obliged, every 3d 

 night at furthest, to give her an anodyne to quiet her ; and that often cannot 

 be done, her pain being so very great. 



The continuance of this severe pain brought her to great weakness, and 

 almost a total loss of flesh ; and unfortunately milk by no means agreed with 

 her. She often tried to conquer it, but never could, it constantly making her 

 very sick in her stomach, and she vomited it up in large lumps. 



They used injections of 2 or 3 sorts, but she could not well bear them ; she 

 had her menses very regularly, till within the 2 or 3 last times : and for 10 or 

 12 days before this account was sent, she had complained of a swelling in her 

 belly, but none in her thighs nor legs. 



She often found a crepitus, or a breaking of wind, as it were, in her bladder; 

 which would make one believe, that there was an aperture from the intestinum 

 rectum to the bladder. Her bladder has been searched, but the surgeon could 

 discover no stone. 



She had for 4 or 5 days preceding this account, complained, at times, of 

 asthmatic fits, which were attributed to the heat of the weather. The voiding 

 of these hairy crustaceous substances never occurred to him before ; though 

 more than once he had had persons who voided large bladders^ like the hydatids 

 in fish, in large quantities, and had cured them. 



She drank the hot-well waters both at Bristol and here, but with little suc- 

 cess ; and took cantharides inwardly, as prescribed by Dr. Groenvelt, in ulcers 

 of the bladder, and all other things that Mr. P. could think of. 



Sir Ham Shanes Answer to Mr. Powell, p. 703. 



In this reply, Sir H. S. states, that he is persuaded that the hairy excretions 

 were generated in her kidneys. He had seen, in his practice, some instances of 

 the like, and had by him what was brought off by urine from some of them. 

 The first he remembered, was from a gentleman near the Exchange, who would 

 frequently, 40 years since, void with his urine long hairs, which were received 

 on white paper ; and, by their transparency and angles, yielded, on viewing by 

 a microscope, the finest colours imaginable, such as we find by a prism. This 

 gentleman did not suffer much, though he complained of a sharpness of urine. 

 The person who was affected the most, was a brewer, who had such hairs 



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