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aod of the leffer fort divers were triangular and qiiadraogu- 
Jar 5 their flats worn to a great fraoothnefs, and their corners 
blunted* The greatcft ftone weighed 206 grains v theleafi 
3 grains ; all the 38 weighed 4^^ ounces. The matter of the 
Stones is exceeding compadtjand like white clay^ andjthough 
the feveral coats may be difcern'd in one of them which I 
broke^ yet they are eot eafily feparible. But what I wonder 
atmofl, is, that io the difleftion of the Kidneys and Ureters 
not any fign of ftone or gravel was to be founds I leave ic 
to better Judgments to dilcufs. How then zhd Where thek 
ftones were generated 5 andif it be granted, in the bladder, 
I fee DO reafon but that (as Mr. J5^/e fomewhere intimates) 
there might be fome liquors, that might pafs the (cveral parts 
of the body without exerting their force, untiil they meet 
with adapted matter to work upon. And why might not then 
theSt€Dt in the bladder be curable, cfpecially if the Patients 
kidneys be fo qualified as this Man's fcem to have bcen^ void 
of any petrifying matter? 
Follows the Relation it felf^ made by Cafparus Wendland,Ci&/>- 
^^gion of the City of DMZick ; EngUjhed out ofHigh-Dutch, 
MR. John Braun, a Gentleman of 7 1 years of age, being 
dead, I was defired to open his body, to fee whether 
we could find the caufe of theexccfBve pains,hehad cndur'd 
for two years and an half mth^fenk, with a continual cut- 
ting, burning and preffing of his urincj coming from him 
drop-wifc; until at laft it came to a eonftant endeavor of 
going to ftool and of making water, which^ a few weeks be- 
fore his death, ended in a continual running of Urine with 
very fharp painjafter which about four days before his dcath^ 
to my knowledge^ the water was totally ftopp'd. He being 
dead, I did, in the prefeoce of his Phyfitiaa , and other 
friends, upon the opening of the body, obfervethe folJow- 
iog particulars 5 t^/z,. The internal parts being all carefully 
examined, we found no defed in them, until we came to 
the Bladder^ which being by us taken out, we found it quite 
foil of ftones, of which the biggeft was of the bignefs of a 
Pjgcoos«egg,aad foraewhat larger. Ofthe bigger fort there 
were 
