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An AbJlraHifa Letter from Dr. Peirce of Bath, to 
one of the S* of the R. giving an account 
of a Shell found in one of the Kidneys a 
I Woman, 
Sir. . . 
T" ; .v.-^N^ 
H E Aceoiaat of the Shell found in the Kidney of a 
Woman is as follows; A Gentle- Woman of about 
^% years of Age, very Fat, and Corpulent, after hav- 
ing been long troubled with frequent, and fometimes 
violent Vomitings, fell at length into a Feaver, which 
hadnoyery ill Symgtoipes atfirft J yet ftie died in few 
days, and oa a iudd^n : for the fa^tisfadiion of her Re- 
lations^ the body was opendj the lower Region being 
firft examind^ I quickly found what might accotint for 
her long Vomitingfand perhaps her Feuver and Death 
coo,) SciL an Ulcer in the Pancreas ; which had Spha- 
celated fome part of the Stomac and Bowells, that lay 
neareft to it. But there having been many things 
taken for the Stone, (many Phyficians, as well as others, 
imputing her Vomiting to that Diftemper,) I was willing 
to lee in what condition her Kidneys were. They were 
covered with a prodigious quantity of Fat; which re- 
TObvi ngwitlT^^^^^^^^^ hand, and reaching one of the Kid- 
neys Ifelt lomething prick my Finger in the lower part 
of the Kidney where the x;r^^^r is ioferted : I prefently 
concluded it to be a Stone, zndi kept hold of it till 1 made 
my way to it with my knife and took it out ( with an a- 
bundance of mucous bloudy matter about it,^ and laid 
it by in the window ; opening the Kidneys, I found not 
lo much as Gravel! (much lefs any Stone,) in either of 
the.m: upon further examination of this matter, ffuppofd 
to be a StQUi, ) by wafhing off themucus that was about it. 
