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III. A Letter from Edward Nourfe, F. R . S. 
Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’^ Hofpital , to 
the Prefident and Fellows of the Royal 
Society, giving an Account of fever al 
Stones found in Bags formed by a protrufion 
of the Coats of the Bladder, as appeared upon 
opening the Body of one Mr . Gardiner. 
-Read jan. 7. T^Ermit me to lay before you the 
1741-2. Bidder of Mr. Gardiner, who was, 
the 5th of March 1739. before the Truftees ap- 
pointed by the Parliament to inquire into the Effi- 
cacy of Mrs. Stephens’s Medicines, produced as an 
Inftance, where they had been dfedtual in diffolving 
the Stone in the Bladder. 
- Mr. Gardiner was fearched by me on Saturday 
the 30th of 'December 1738. I felj: a Stone the Mo- 
ment my Inflrument was introduced ; which was 
likewife felt by Mr. Wall, his Apothecary, then 
prefent. 
The Tuefday following, he began to take Mrs. 
Stephens’s Medicines, and continued them eight 
Months. 
On the 30th of November 1739- I faw him at 
Child's CofFee-houfe, when he rold me, he was quite 
free from his ufual Diforders:: I there fearched him 
again, in the Prefence of feveral Phyficians and Sur- 
geons, who likewife felt for the Stone, but none 
could be found. 
B 2 
Mr. 
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