( 21^4 ) 
IL ^t'art of a Letter from Mr Ralph Thoresby^- 
F. d^. concerrmg a Urge ^all yoided by Stool. 
}N my laft: I promifed you an account qt a Ball lately 
voided* by Madam — /^, after fo fevere Pains that 
her Life was in danger, but flie is not willing to have it 
cut, and the bulk of it is much liibrt of what I can now 
give you an an account of from another hand 5 but this 
may ferve as a further inftance of the danger of fwallow- 
ing the Stones of Fruit, for immediately after, (he voided 
fev^ral Plumb Stones,tho (he had not of 12 months before, 
eaten any oi that Fruit. Captain Wejl, who gave me the 
favour of a Vifit, told]me,he had once feen 2 larger Stones 
voided by a Neighbour, than any of thofe 3 formerly 
mentioned : He has fince procur'd them for me, and the 
leffer of them is fomewhat larger than the biggeft of the 
other, but the other is furprizingly great ^ the form of it ^ 
3S not much unlike the Echinus Shell or HAmet Stone, flat 
on one fide and roundiQi on the other ^ 'tisabove 6 inches 
one way, and 7 the other, in Circumference. Mr H. ^ 
Hodgkinfon (vyho is, I prefume, the Dbftor or Surgeon 
concerned) fent this relation along with.^ them, " TThat 
" they were taken from William ColdeU ^pf Qreen, May ^ 
" the loth, Anno Dom. i6§^. They weighed 9 Ounces 
*' vvhen lii'ft evacuated, and wer^ removed by Dyet Drink 
"with an Alkaly Powder, and a Magiftral Stomach- 
*' Plaifter 5 that the Perfon dyed 7 years after*of one too 
large to be evacuated 5 for upon the griping i ^ ir, be- 
" twixt the Hypocondrias and Share- Bone, it jc to be 
''vis large as a Goofe Egg., 
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