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II. M Account of a Urge Stone voided through 
the Urinary Paffage, by a Woman^ Communi* 
cated by Ur, Richard Beard, JP. R, S, Fhyjician 
at Worcelter, 
fVorcefier, Jan. 29, 172I 
S I R, 
A Midft the variety of Obfervations, that have been 
made on the extraordinary Powers of Nature, 
that which follows may deferye a place. A poor Woman 
in the Parifli of FlaSury in th*is County, aged 63 , 
about 3 Years ago, was afflided with the ufual Symp- 
toms of a Stone in the Kidneys, and afterwards in the 
Bladder. The Fits of Pain occafioned by it increas*d as 
its Bulk did ; till fiie was fo emaciated by 'em, that 
her Cafe was judg'd deiperate. Finding relief (to- 
wards the end of lalt Summer) by a plentiful ufe of 
Mallow-Tea, fhe perfilted in it for a while j when on 
a hidden, in the prefence of fome W^omen, Ihe per- 
ceived an uncommon weight and force within, which 
aflifting with all the Strength and Breach llie had 
left, a Stone came away with a Noife that ve- 
ry much furpriz’d the whole Company, and with 
lefs Pain and EtTufion of Blood then, or Sore- 
nefs afterwards, than might have been expeciled. 
She is fince eafy and in healtii, and feels no o- 
ther Inconvenience now, but that unavoidable one, 
an Incont mintia Unnae, 
The 
