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V. 'P^r^ of two Letters from Mr Henry Vaughan 
the Tuhlifher^ contaimng feme mcommoyi Ob/erVatt^ 
9ns , made upon the /DtffeHion of feme Morbid ^o^ 
dies. 
A Gentleman about a month before ChUftmas eat 
fome common Prunes, about two pound, or more, 
and. about a month or five weeks ago, he eat about a pound 
more : About a fortnight before he dyed I found , 
according to Jiis complaint, that he had fome fymptoms 
of the Stone. He had a violent pain in the neck of his 
Vefica, and about the Urethra, with obftruftionfi in his 
lirine, &e. 1 'ordered him a Tierebinthinate Clyfter, which 
gave him eafe but feeing his pains increafed, I advifed him 
to a Phyfician : He made ule of one of his acquaintance, 
lie likewife prefcribed Clyfters, with Diureticks and Narco- 
ticks,to no purpofe. Upon his death, [obtained leave of his 
Relations to DilTefi: him 5 accordingly- 1 did with,^he help- 
ot a Surgeon^ Dr Wefl being prefent, with feveral others of 
the deceased Patient's friends. I found upon the Difieftion 
the Prune-ftones pafled into the Intejiimm return, and had 
there made a perforation, or rupture, into the Pelvis. V^q 
tyed one -part of the Gut^,ajid cutout apiece, and emptied 
it: There was taken out 128 Prune-ttones in number, be- 
fides what we left behind inftercere, in the other part of 
the Imftimm Re&Hmr There was likewife a large Polypus 
taken opt , of the Left Ventricle of the Heart, &Cr 
