bTl PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I76I. 



rally of a good constitution, was never subject to any nephritic or gravelly com- 

 plaints for almost 70 years, but enjoyed for the most part a good share of health, 

 till about 6 or 7 years before, when he had some gravelly complaints, and unea- 

 siness in making water: which increased on him progressively; and for the last 

 2 years he had so much pain in sitting, that he was obliged to use a perforated 

 chair, made for that purpose. But for some months past, his increased pain 

 would not permit him to sit at all, even at his meals, which he used to take either 

 stinding or lying. When he first came to be in this painful situation, there 

 appeared a prominence on the right side of the perinaeum, towards the hinder 

 part of the scrotum ; which, increasing by degrees, felt hard and superficial for 

 some time, and the parts all about it became so extremely sore and tender, that 

 at length on the 24th of September, 1761, on getting out of bed a laceration 

 happened, and the stone was voided, falling down on the floor. 



Five days after this happened. Dr. F. went to see the patient, to get a perfect 

 knowledge of the circumstances of the fact; the particulars of which he then 

 communicated to Mr. Warner, surgeon of Guy's hospital in London, who re- 

 turned him a satisfactory account, from his own observations, of the manner by 

 which a stone is contained in the urethra, &c. 



Ever since the stone came away, this patient had discharged no urine but by 

 the wound ; which when Dr. F. first saw him, was so much contracted, as to 

 be no larger than to admit into it a small finger, and the parts were become 

 callous about it. Dr. F. would have recommended him to proper care on that 

 occasion; but he would by no means hearken to him; seeming to be very happy 

 in being freed from the cruel burden of the stone ; and not regarding, he sup- 

 poses, at his time of life, whether he could be helped in the discharge of his 

 urine any other way. 



In a further account Mr. Warner adds that when this surprizingly large calcu- 

 lus was first voided, which was on the 24th of September 1761, it weighed 6 

 oz. and 2 drs. ; that on the 29th of the same month it weighed 6 oz., wanting 

 idr. 15grs. On the Uth of October following, it weighed 6 oz., wanting 3 

 drs. 1 scr. On the 17th of the same month, it weighed 6 oz., wanting S^^drs. 



Mr. W. further adds, that in March 1761 he produced 2 very remarkable 

 calculi to the r.s. for their inspection; when they did him the honour to desire a 

 written account of the case of the person, in whose urethra they were lodged. 

 The whole of what he thought worth troubling the Society with, on that occasion, 

 was, that they had been for many years lodged in the urethra of one Robert Bol- 

 ley, a young man, aged about 22, and that they had produced no great incon- 

 venience or pain till of late, when the integuments began to inflame; which in- 

 flammation commenced not long before he was put under his care. The con- 

 sequence of this change in the parts was extreme torture, a severe symptomatic 



