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fculos h^rcns cucem flaccidam tumefcerc fecic ; poftmo- 

 dum vero, ubi vifcida acque carcarea hasc mafla coaluic, acque 

 in calculum abiic, mufculis hngux &faucium liberum & or- 

 dinarium mocum abftulic , (quod ex degluciendi difficulcace, 

 &!oquel# incercepcione colligere licec) ad fuperiora tandem, 

 & iii buccam calculum afcendere irricaci mufculi coegerunc, 

 quo fa&um eft , uc oris incernum inccgumencum , alias facis 

 firmum, diftendendo perforaveric calculus profiliens. Ec hac 

 quidem racione rarioris illius calculi fublingualis orcum, incre- 

 mencum, exicum, & fympcomaca, brevicer , fed camen haud 

 obfcurcdeclarafleme exiftimo, 



Tertius, quem proponere volui, cakulus % prioribus multo 

 major exiftic. Hunc dono accepi a nobiliflimaquadam ma- 

 trona, qu# in memoriam affii&iflimse macris fuae, ex qua or- 

 tus erac calculus, hoc crifte monumencumaflervabacrecondi- 

 tum; cujus hiftoriam paulo pleniorem cradere non penicebic: 

 Eft amem calculus oblongus, lacus, craflus, ad duarum uncia- 

 rum pohdus accedcns, in akera excremicacc fubrocundus, 

 afper, & duriflimse cexcurae; in alcera excremicace, ubi friabi- 

 lis, & porofus apparec, mulco amplior , in cujus lacere finiftro 

 gaudec angulo obcufo, in dexcro aucem abic in appendicem 

 medii digici craflicie, quse fupra corpus reliquum prominet, 

 acque uc formam ejus brevicer defcribam ; figuli puerulis ad 

 lufum ex argilla praparanc anferculos , quorum figurae, capi- 

 tepedibusquedemtis» facies hujus calculi per omnia accuracc 

 refpondec. Nocabilis quidem magnicudo, nocabilis ftrudu- 

 ra » nocabilis quoque cft figura calculi hujus, mulco verono- 

 tabilior exclufio ejusdem apparebic : Vecula nimirum, ancea 

 laudat^ macronae macer, per plufculos annos nephricidc labo- 

 ransuc fieri folec, minorcs fubinde quamplurimos cxcrevc- 

 rac calculos, arenulas, acquc fabulum ; aliquando concinuis 

 doloribusin vefica rodencibus, premencibus , &admingen- 

 dum ftimulancibus vexaca , tnajorem veficae calculum adeflc 



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