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T m OhfervAtions about Stones founds the one in the Bladder of a 
Doggy the other faftned to the Bacl^-bone of aHorfe: both men' 
tioned in tm l^man Journals de Letterati, 
/. ^ I "^H E Dogg was a pretty Spaniel, two palms and a 
1 half high, white,and an excellent fetter for Quails. 
Being kept tyed, as fuch doggs arc wont to be, he would raa 
ther have burft than urine or dung in the place where he 
was kept^ By reafon of his aptnefs to bite , he was 
cut when he was five years old , and two years after thar, 
he began to urine with much difficulty. Whereupon as often 
as he was let loofe, he ran prefently into tha Garden and fell 
to eat of Fellitory of the WaB., and Fig-leaves, This difeale 
continued upon him for five years together, fometimes with 
that violence that his Mafler had him Cringed, and anointed 
with oyl of Scorpions, and ufed other remedies to help the 
poor creature* 
At length he died at twelve years of age^ and being opened 
by a skilful Anatomift, there was found in his bladder a ftone 
weighing an ounce, of an irregular figure, white^y et here and 
there with fome reddilh fpecks ^ and in the bottom of the 
bladder was found florc of fmall white gravel, and in the 
mouth of the urinal paffage a ftone as big as a great pine-ker- 
nel, white and tender. The reft of the body was all fwelled. 
It may be noted here (faith the Italian Journaliji) that Mat" 
thiolus and others fay, that the Juice of PeSitory doth much 
provoke urine 5 and that it doth fo efpecially, when being 
heated upon a tile and fprrnkled with a little Malmefy, it is 
applied to the part* And as to Fig-leaves^ he adds, that Phy- 
ficians adfcribe to Figs an abfterfive vertue/ opening the bo- 
dy and cleanfing the reins : Of which vcrtue the Leaves may 
perhaps participate* Thus Brutes feem to know,without any 
A\TQ6i\QX\£Tom2LDiofcorides^ .or Matthiolur^ or other Bo tanift, 
the herbs proper for their difeafes. 
11. The other Stone, that was faftenM to the bacj^-bone of 
a Spanifh Gelding, that died at the age of between thirteen 
and fourteen years^ weighed four ounces and an half 5 it was 
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