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Not long fince my worthy and Ingenious Friend, the 
Learned Dr. Fowke, making me a vifit, I (hew'd him this 
Man, and he was pleafed nicely to examine his Cafe, and 
told me he had never heard, or met with in Books, any 
thing like it. 
This day [June 12.) I faw GGbJill he looks better 
than he did when I left the Country. Dr. Davies was 
with me, and examined all the Particulars herein men- 
tioned. 
The REMARKS. 
There are many People who are of Opinion^ that the Swal- 
lowing Stones or Pebbles is very beneficial to the Healthy 
by helping the Stomach to digeft their Food, The rea- 
fon of this^ I fuppofe^ is becaufe they fee Birds Languijk^ 
unlefs they fwallow Gravel or fmall Stones, I have been 
confulted by fome upon this occafion^ but was always againfi 
this praBice in Men : becaufe the Stomachs {or Gizzards) 
of Birds {they wanting Teeth to grind their Food) is made 
very ftrong^ Mufcular^ and def ended in the infide with a 
Coaty by the help of which ^ and thefe Stone Sy their ViBuah 
are ground. Now the Stomach of Men being different y 'tis 
not reafonable to think they Jhould he of ufe to them, I 
knew one Mr, Kingfmill, who ufed to fwallow for many 
TTears {if I remember right) Nine at a time, once every day^ 
^without any injury. He at my defircy fwallowed fome bc" 
fore mCy tbofe he fwallowed were near as large as Walnuts. 
He told me he found they pafs'dy and had no inconvenience 
by themy though he had ufed them many Tears ; and bought 
them by the Peck, having them taken up fome-where in Kent. 
He only chofe fuch as were roundifh and fmooth. He died 
afterwards fuddenly» 
As Remedies which have been found helpful to other A" 
ntmals may be fometimes beneficial to Man^ yet the injiance 
here related Jhows great Cofifideration Jhould be had of them. 
II, Some 
