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XIV. AbjbraB of a Letter from Mr, Wm, 
Arderon to Mr, Baker, F.R.S. of a Shuttle- 
Spire taken out of the Bladder of a Boy, 
Norwich. Off. 12. 
1744. 
Read Dec. 6. 
1744. 
O N the 1 6th of September lafi, Mr. 
John Harmer , a Surgeon in this 
City, cut one Teter Riggs , a Boy about feventeen 
Years of Age, for the Stone ; at which time there 
was extracted from him (to the utmoft Surprize of 
the Spe&ators) an iron Shuttle Spire , four Inches 
long. He had, it is laid, fome time before, a Stop- 
page of Urine ; and, by endeavouring with this Piece 
of Wire to relieve himfelf, and thrufting it too far 
along the urinary Paffage, he let it drop into the 
Bladder, where it occafioned the fame Symptoms as a 
Stone would have done. He underwent the Operation 
with great Fortitude ; and laid nothing of this Accident 
Until it was ail over. He is now perfectly recovered. 
XV . An Account of a remarkable Cure , per- 
formed on the Eye of a young Woman in 
Scotland, by Tho. Hope, M. D. communi- 
cated from Dr. Mead . 
Dec. 13 -gfANE Will f on, a Girl now eighteen 
J Years of Age, about feven Years ago 
began to have her left Eye turned towards the Tem- 
ple, occafioned by fome Tumour betwixt the Globe 
and the Orbit. This Tumour, for fome Years, did 
not 
