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Story several stones were forced out of the walls. The walls of the belfry or 

 tower were much damaged ; several stones driven out, and perforations made in 

 the solid wall, particularly one of 14 inches square and 6 inches deep, so truly 

 square and regular, as if cut out by art. All the windows in the church either 

 broken out, or bagged outward. 



XXVI. On the Case of the late Horace Lord IFalpole ; being a Sequel to his 

 own u^ccount published in the Phil. Trans, vol. xlvii. p. 43 and 4^2. p. 205. 



/. Copy of a Letter from John Pringle, M.D., F.R.S. to Dr. Robert /^fht/tt. 

 Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, and F. R. S., relating to 

 the Case of Lord IValpole ; with Dr. WhytCs Answer. Communicated by Dr. 

 Pringle. Dated London, 12 Feb. 1757. p. 205. 



In the month of March 1756, about 10 months before his lordship's death, 

 Dr. P. happened to meet him at a friend's house, where he dined, and never saw 

 any man of his age with a more healthful appearance. He was then in his 78th 

 year. He ate with an appetite, and of a variety of dishes ; drank some Madeira, 

 and was very chearful the whole time. His lordship said that he had enjoyed 

 perfect health since he sent his case to the Royal Society ; that he thought it 

 probable there was still a stone in his bladder, but so diminished or smoothed, as 

 to give him no uneasiness ; that he did not think it safe to go about the streets of 

 London in a coach, but that he went every where in a chair ; and that in the 

 country he could travel 40 miles a day in his post-chaise without fatigue, or feel- 

 ing any of his old pains on the motion. That he continued to drink, for a con- 

 stancy, 3 pints of oyster-shell lime-water daily ; and to take as often from half 

 an ounce to a whole ounce of soap, by way of lenitive. 



From this time to the beginning of winter. Lord Walpole (as Mr. Graham, his 

 apothecary, informed Dr. P.) continued in the same state of health ; but some 

 time after coming to town, his lordship was seized with a lingering feverish dis- 

 order, very much affecting his spirits, but entirely unconnected with the stone. 

 Dr. Shaw, who attended his lordship for about a fortnight before his death, said 

 that there had never been any stoppage of water, or passing of bloody urine, or 

 any pain about his bladder or kidneys during his last illness ; but that he now and 

 then felt some irritation in making water, a symptom too inconsiderable to require 

 any other medicine than the continuation of his lime-water ; which in a smaller 

 quantity he drank till within 2 or 3 days of his end. 



Mr. Ranby and Mr. Hawkins, surgeons, with Mr. Graham, were present at 

 the opening of the body ; and from the last 2 Dr. P. received the account of the 

 dissection. The coats of the bladder appeared to be a little thicker than natu- 



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