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quir'd by what ways it was carried ofT, for that it 
feemi'd impoffible to me to believe fuch a paflage of it ; 
for that it muft pafs through fuch very fmall Blood 
VelTcls near the Heart ; which, and how it lliould be 
that this thick Pus or Matter fhould p:ifs fuch extreamly 
fmall Blood Veflels? To which I had no other Anfwer 
but this. That there are many things Joney of which we 
can gi ve no reafon. 
Hereupon I ask'd him that Paid he was fo wonder- 
fully cured, w hether fome would not fay that his Cure 
hapned becaufe the Sore was conie to its full Maturity, 
and not by the Synipathetick Powder. 
Moreover, the Kigh German, lliew'd me a Paper of 
Stones, which he faid, he had broken in the Body of a 
Woman by his Sympachetick Powder, 
I again ask'd, If they would not take it amifs iff 
ask'd iome farther Queftions. And they granted me 
freedom. 
I faid then, that in my Opinion the Stone in the 
Bladder or Kidneys could not be broken by any Medi- 
cine taken inwardly ; and it fcem'd to be much more 
unlikely, that it Ihould be effeded by the Operation of 
the Sympatherick Powder on the Urine of the Patient : 
And therefore, the vaunting of breaking the Stone in 
the Bladder or Kidneys, and bringing ihem away there- 
by, mud' be a fliam or untruth. Since I had put a. 
Stone of the Kidney a whole Year in (Irong Wine Vi- 
negar, yet could not diffoive it. Though I know 
very well, that fmall Stones and Gravel in the Blad- 
der or Kidneys, may be carry ed out by fome Me» 
dicines taken inwardly. 
The fame told me,that he had now under Cure, aWo- 
man who had had a great Swelling in her Arm ^etweerr 
her Han^ and Elbow, and now had a greater above her 
Elbow between that and herShoulder,which was blaGk,but 
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