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way, of any confiderable bignefs, are conftantly attended 
with this Weakneft. 
But this Trouble is fully recompens'd by the Rcmifli- 
on of her Pains, which, fince the Stone came away, 
are fo abated, that ftie can walk about, and is now able 
to come abroad. 
3 Tis very extraordinary that fo large a Stone fhould be 
naturally voided by the Bladder ; and 1 hav e read but of 
very few that come nigh the bignefs of this, which I have 
now in my Pofleffion, and keep among (ome other na- 
tural Productions, as a curious Rarity. 
Thomas Bartholine in his Centurid V Hiji. Anat. Obfer- 
vat. 71. ftts down the Delcripnonand Figure ot a very 
large Stone as he thought, though he fays 'twas but Ovi 
Gallinacei magnitudine, that came from a Woman as this 
did. 
And Daniel Angelus in the Mifcellan. Phyftco-Medic. 
Germanic. An. 1676. Obfervat. 195. gives the Figure of 
another Stone, much of the fame fize with Bartholin?^ 
Ipontaneoufiy difcharged the fame way. 
Likewife Pet r us Borellus Centuria Secunda Obferv.zz. 
mentions a Stone, but gives no Figure of it, voided 
by a Girl through her Urinary PaiTage, Ovi Anferinz 
magnitudinis, as his own Words are, which I fuppote was 
much of the fame fize with this of ours. 
But Nicolaus Tulpius in his more elaborate Obferv. 
Lib. 3. cap. 7. gives an Account of & Woman 89 Years 
of Age, that voided a Stone, of which he gives you an 
accurate Figure, full as broad, (omewhat longer, and al- 
moft y heavier than this I have defcrib'd ; yet flie Jived 
after it, and was fo well as to walk" abroad. 
I mention thefe feveral Examples, not only to illufirate 
and* confirm the Truth of our prefent Story, even to 
the mod incredulous $ but as fo many Arguments, from 
whence I think, one may reafonably infer, That no Wo- 
man need be obliged ever to undergo the painful and 
hazardous 
