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I. Part of Two Letters of May the 2 ith a^id 
June the i 2th^ 1699. from Sir Charles Holt 
. to Dr. Shadwell^ Concerning a Difeafe caufed 
by Swallowing Stones \ with Remarks on the 
fame^ by Hans Sloane, M. D. 
V I ^IS now about Two Months or more fince one T^ho. 
\ Gobfill^ of Shelden near ColeJlrUl in Warwickfmre^ 
(a Lean, Spare Man aged about 26 or 27.) came to me 
and gave me the following Account of himfelf : i:iz. 
That about Three Years ago, he was extremely troubled 
with the Wind, which put him to great Torture : and 
one day making his Complaint to an old Woman in the 
Neighbourhood, ftie advifed him to fwallow Stones, ^vz. 
round white Pebbles : upon the next return of a Fit, he 
obferved her Diredtions ; and the Stones pafiing eafily 
through him, he found great Relief by his new Medicine, 
of wJhich he was very proud ; and repeated it as often, 
as he had occafion with the fame happy Succefs, After 
fome Months, he being feized with a violent Fit of this 
Spleen Wind (as he caird it) he immediately apply *d 
himfelf to his old Remedy, and fwallowed his ufual num- 
ber of Stones (which as I remember was Nine) but they 
not ' paffing, he repeated the Dofe ; and fo continued ta- 
king of them 'till he had taken above 200. He had thefe 
Stones ia him above two years and a half, when he firft 
came, to me, and then complained, that his Appetite 
was gone, that he could digeft nothing, but threw up e- 
very thing he eat 5 I was then going abroad, and had not 
time to make a more particular Enquiry, but from this 
Relation 1 imagined, that the Stones by their Weight and 
prefTure might have diftended the Coats of the Stomach, 
aad' for«a'd themfelves arBed in fundo Ventriculi, But 
the nex't^time I faw him, I found I was miftaken 3 for up- 
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