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nefs of an half Crown, within that appeared a fubftance 
refembliug Pafte-board or chewed Paper, and within that 
]ay a Prune or withered Plumb, with the Stone and Kernel 
cut afunder by my Knife. 
I have fent it for the K. Society to examin, who T pre- 
fume will think that all thofe wonderful accidents, which 
fo longmolefted this poor Womm, were occafioned by this 
Plumb fwallowed fo many years before 5 but how thofe 
different accretions were made to it in fuch a place as the In- 
teftines ? how ic ceafed to torment her at fo many and fuch * 
different In ervals ? where it lurked bc«tween thofe Firs, and 
how the Pain and Tumour obferved fuch exaft Periods for 
fo many years 5 at firft every three months, and afterward 
every g weeks? arequeftions lam not able to refolve. 
Many Authors tell us of various Stones ejefted by Stool, ^^^,;/ ^,,^^ 
and of late many of them have been found to come out of j^oI z.oi^f.B^. 
the Gall Bladder through the Choleric'k Channels of Jaun-^l^*^^^ 
diced People. I have feen two fuch bigger than any I haveBurh. T^i/. 
read of, one fo big as a Pullets Egg, which came from a''^' ^ 
Lady in the operation of a ftrong Ciiolagogue taken tar a 
Jaundice that had refited many other Remedies, the other 
as big as a large Nutmeg, driven out by the fame means from 
an aged Man languifhing in the fame diftemper, an^ both 
of them for many days after thofe Stones came off, eva- 
cuated great quantities of Choler by Stool, and were freed 
of the Difeafe. 
That thofe two Stones were generated in the Fo/UchIhs 
Fellis or duSus Choledochus^ no man will doubt who con- 
fiders the confequence,and knows that in colour, tafle, weigl t 
and (bape, they refembled fuch as are found in thofe parts 
upon diffeftion of Jaundiced Bodies. I once faw near an 
handful of them taken out of the Gall Bladder of the Pc^r- 
tugd Ambaffador that dyed in London^ 1679. and we are 
lately told by Baglivim, that the famous Malpighhts's was 
full of them, they ufually are of fubcitrin colour, refemble 
bright Myrrh, and feem an aggregate of fmall Stones, v/hich 
