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blooded, fomented externally, had emollient fapona- 
ceous clyders inje&ed, and a nitrous apozem, and 
pills compofed of galban. & Jap. CaJtillenJ'. and foon 
after recovered. She had frequent returns of the 
lame complaint after this ; but I faw her not again 
till Jan. 1 757, when die lay infenlible in a fit, which 
for leveral days deprived her of the ufe of her fpeech 
and of all her fenfes, only fhe tolled her limbs about. 
About a quarter of a year after die had recovered 
from this fit, Mr. Cooper of this place, her apothe- 
cary, informed me, that from a fmall fore at the 
pit of her domach, which came fince her lad ill— 
1 nefs,. die had voided feveral gall-dones. Curiofity 
prompted me to inquire into the matter of fadt from 
herfelf. She fhewed me the fore, which was now 
almod cicatrized. She faid, that foon after her lad 
illnefs a little pimple arofe upon that part of the pit 
of the domach, which had been hard ever fince fhe 
had been fubjedt to the jaundice. This pimple broke, 
ran matter, and at different times the calculi , which 
die lhewed me, had come out with the matter. Her 
domach had been fomewhat painful before it broke, 
hut was now eafy. The calculi , which fhe fhewed 
me, had the appearance of being fragments of larger 
ones, and fome were almod dud ; tho’ fhe affured 
me they all came from the fore in that condition. 
Of thefe fragments I have two or three of the larged 
now in my cudody : they are light, fwim on water, 
fmooth like foap ; are of a yellow colour, and in 
fome parts brown like fnuff ; and confid of dmilar 
concentrical layers. The poor woman has fince 
then been troubled with returns of pain and jaun- 
dice, in the intervals of which her fkin is perfectly 
clear 
