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The Authors and Stories are numerous. Dlemerbroeck 
AnaU lik 1. c» 17. mentions divers of his own Know- 
ledge, and many more from ?lutarch^ Langius^ A' ex. Be' 
vediSfuf^ J, M, HejfifiSj J. Alexandrims^ N, Flore fjtinfts, 
P. Pigr£HS^ and others, That Needles, Lumps of Fat, 
Iron Keys, Roots, Seeds, Nails, &c. have come off in 
Urine. To thefe may be added Jho. Bartholims^ ASl, 
Med. Vol, 2. Obf. 125. Vol. g.. Ohf. 68. VoL 5. Ohf. 57. 
70. As alfo in his Tr. de La^. Ihorac. Cap. 6. 9. Fubr. 
Hi Id anus y Cent. 5. Obf. 51. who write of Pin;,dv. caft 
off by Urine. But our Country* Man Dr. Farfaxy writes 
of one moreflrange^ A Leaden- bullet fwallnwed by a 
Woman for" the Cholick, was pifs’d off fome Years after*- 
ward, incruhated with a gravelly, gritty-, and ftony Ac- 
crefion. The Story is publifhed by Mr. Oldenburghy PF. 
Tr. No. 40. to which I refer. 
About twenty Years fince I was affured by a Phyfiiian 
pradifing in the Weft Part of Cornwall^ that he knew a 
Woman that pifs’d out a fmall Plumb-Stone. But there , 
happen’d at Loo in the fame County, about 1 6 Years ago, 
a more furprizing Accident of that fort, wdYich 1 liere 
fet you down as I had it from the Pen of the Phyfitian 
concern’d, who is alive, and the Truth of it well known 
in and about the Towm where it happen’d. 
‘ Nathaniel Mitchell of loo in Cornwall^ aged about 
‘ “50, was in the Summer 1690, feized with violent Co- 
* lical Pains which he mitigated by Glyfters, but could 
‘ not pertedly free himfelt of them. About Michaelmas 
* 1691. his Pains being very violent, he v/as relieved by 
‘ the fame Remedy 5 and by the perfuafion of a skilful 
^ Woman, he drank the Powder of Nertle-roots in 
‘ White Wine ; After the firft or fecond Dofe he dif^ 
‘ charged a great quantity of Urine, with a very fecu- 
‘ lent Sediment* About the beginning of November 1691. 
^ being Coftive, be eat Mallow roots and Corinths boil’d, 
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