An 3/lraM of a Letter from l}rSm\X^^L^^ 
Hallifax to Dr Plot of Oxford, giidng an .account, 
of Stones FoUedfySlcge, 
A Carpenter, abbuffcirty years of ag^^ 'M^'^rpt^^^^ 
bit of body, and very laborioas in his cal'ing, five" 
ing about a mile hence, came to jne ^bout three wepks 
fince, and made great Complaint qf the fa<| jip^rturp^lie 
had ftifffer'dby realoh of two he h2ud|yQ^ye^ 
this laft Chri£kmafs,there being abokc 14. days time be- 
tween ; the firft was the lefs which is reprefented Numb. 
12, Fig. r .the latter is much larger,as in Numb. 1 2, Fig. 2, 
but both of them much dimimflit, as to their various 
angles, and fharp points they had at their exit, by 
means of the fellows bearing them about with him in his 
pocket for four or five days, amonglt his little Iron 
tools, that have relation to his trade. He perceived no 
alteration or difturbance in his body, till within f or 6 
days that the firft came.^^ 
plain very much of a pain in the belly, much refemble- 
ing the Colic^, and of a ftoppage in the Inteftins, not 
much unlike that in a Tenefmus , having frequent 
provocations to go to ftool, but to no purpofe upon 
tryall ; he took little or no reft in all that time; his 
Stomack retained fcarce any Meat or Drink it receiv'di 
till in the conclufion one of the Stones came into the 
Intejiinum return ; where it lodg'd for a days time ; then 
coming within the reach of his Finger, he drew it out 
by force, and prefently after the diflodging of this 
troublefome gueft, he was very well again ; and fo con- 
tinued for a fortnight, till the other begun to move i 
which occafioned a pain beyond the former in propor- 
tion to its bulk J and kept him upon the rack about 
eight daysi during which time, there was an abfolute 
V a fuppreffion 
