An Ab/lraSi- of a Letter from the Learned Dr. Cole 
Phyfician at Worcefter, dated May the 
, 16^^^^ concerning Stones Voided perPenera, 
Sir, 
T F the exclufion of two Stones (of the bignefs Fig, io> 
J[ and 11) by ih.Qpems, without any, or any confide- 
rable pain, be worth notice, be pleafed to know, I had 
the account of it from theperfon that Voided them. I 
faw the iy^^^w^j" and took the bignefs, and circumference 
^of which the ftrait line is the meafure, they being in the 
thickeft part much of a bignefsj of them, by tracing 
lines about them as they lay upon a paper for the fliape, 
and meafuring them with a thread for the circumference. 
He told me he was for many years fubjeit to great pain, 
firft in the i(jV//^^j^/, and afterwards in the Bladder, whei^ 
that in the Kidneys ceafed. But fince their exclufian 
(which was about a year fince) he was free from pain • till 
the time I faw him, which was (as I remember j about half 
a year fince. 
JOHANNIS HEVELII, Confuli^ Vantifca- 
ni ^ Annus Climaftericus. Gedani 1685. 
Folio. Wherein Qamongfl other things^ he vin- 
dicates the jufinefs of hps CeUftial Obfervationsy 
againfl the exceptions by fome made to the accuracy 
of them. 
THis Learned,. Accurate, and Diligent Jjlronomer, in 
his Z)^^2V^^i(?« and Preface, f and elfewhere occa- 
fionally in the Book,) doth bewail the great Calamity 
he liiffered by Fire, in the year k^/^ i wherein (^^/^^. 26> 
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