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left her in the fortieth year of her age , ) thereby perhaps 
deceived ^ becaefe there was never either ftonc or gravel 
voided by her. Bat her laft DoSor (from whom I have this 
relation, ) adjudged it to proceed ab affelluNephritico ^ qui' 
demgravijfmo^ This perfon, when dead of thefe diftempers, 
was ope,ned by this her laft Phyfician, and among many otli^r 
common Fhcenomena he found the left Kidney filled with large 
ftone^j but the right wholly petrified, covered wit'hrheor^ 
dinary skin without any flefli ; the half of which (the other 
being broke^n by injurious difledlion) reprefenting ftiU the 
Kidney, Ihave feen, which was both mafly and ponderous, 
fo concreted by the clofer coalition of minute fand , which 
might be rubbed off by your finger. 
The other was a Lad about nmeteen years old, who from 
his Cradle was difpofed to a Confumption, accompanied 
with continual Coughing , great emaciation and continual 
heatj fo that he was reduced to a Sceleton^ and labouring 
under this diftemperdied^ Being opened, a great quantity 
of watry matter run out at the abdomen^ of a chylous cdc^ 
fiftence; moft^. yea almoftall theglanduls of the Mefentery, 
through which pafs the vena laBci^, were extraordinary great 
and hardned beyond thehardnefs of ^Scirrhus.Th^ Breaft be- 
ing opened, the Lungs were found grown to it round aboiirj 
almoft infeparable^ full of purulent ulcers,but more efpecially 
the left fide, obftrudted and filled with much gravel and fmall 
ftones ; yea^whole pieces of the Lungs, efpecially the extre* 
mities,aboutthe thicknefs of a finger and more^were hardned 
into a ftony matter. 
An Accompt of Four Books, 
I, Fraud fez de le Eoe Sylvii PRAXIS MEDICJl Idea novaJuWg- 
duniBatav. 167 1. 
^ I "^He Learned and Experienced Author of this work, de- 
_|_ firing to furnifli his Auditors with a compendious Jlledu 
calPra&ife^2,nd to do it after the Method of that Excellent and 
Happy phyfician Plateruf^ did propofe to himfelf to handle 
chiefly of the more Simple AjfeBions of the Humane Body, be- 
caule they being well underftood, the knowler'ge of thofe 
that are Complicate will not be difficult to attain* 
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