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on Examining his Belly I found the Stones lay almoft as 
low as the Os Pubis, and thrufting my Fingers juft about 
that Bone, fo that the lower part of the Abdomen might 
lie on my hand, I could with the Motion of my hand iliake 
them, and make them rattle, as if they had been in a Bag. 
When I had made this Difcovery, I caufed a Ladder to be fet 
againft a Wall, and hung him by the Hams on the infide 
of the Ladder with his Head diredly perpendicular to the 
ground. Whilft he was in this Poftare, he told me the 
Stones were got up to his Stomach ; but being fet upon 
his Feet, afier a very fmall time we could plainly hear 
the Stones drop fucceffively one after another, and fo di- 
ftindly, that they might be counted. 
If his Body be not Laxative, he Vomits all he eats or 
drinks ; to prevent which he commonly keeps it open 
with Whey. As he lies in Bed the Stones will fometimes 
get up (as he expreft it) almoft to his Heart, and give 
him great Difturbance ; at which times he is forced to 
get upon his Knees, or to (land upright, and then he can 
hear them drop as is before-nientioned ; and at fuch times 
he has counted an hundred and odd j fome times more, 
fometimes lefs, but always above an hundred. 
He is now fo difabled by thefe Stones that he cannot 
Work, but in pain 5 and when he attempts it, he finds 
the fame Night and the next day, a great forenefs in the 
bottom of his Belly, and voids large quantities of Blood 
by Stool. 
Before I faw him, he had been under the hands of fe- 
veral Quacks : fome had Vomited him with Stibium^ 
and Purg'd him, others Purg'd and Glifter'd him ; but all 
the forcing Medicines they made ufe of, could never 
bring one Stone from him. 
- He now eats tolerably well, but complained when I 
law him laft (which wz,^ Friday the 5th of June) that the 
Stones grew more troublefome to him every day than 
other. Not 
