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XLIX. The Cafe of a Patient , who voided a 
large Stone through the Perinceum from the 
Urethra. Communicated to the Royal So- 
ciety hy Mr. jofeph Warner, Surgeon , of 
Guy’s Hof pit al^ to whom this Memoir was 
addrejfed , for that Purpofe , by Dr. Frewen, 
of Rye in S 11 (lex. 
Read Nov. 19, "jTJTEnry Taught, of Haftings in SufleX, 
JfTjL aged feventy-fix, a drong hail 
man, and naturally of a good conditution, was never 
fubjedt to any nephritic or gravelly complaints for al- 
moft feventy years ; but enjoyed, for the mod: part,, 
a good lhare of health, (though he had been expofed, 
the greated part of his life-time, as a mariner, to the- 
irregularities and inclemencies of that element, to 
which his occupation engaged bim) till about fix or 
feven years ago, when he had fome gravelly com- 
plaints, and uneafinefs in making water ; which in- 
creafed upon him progreflively •> and, for the lad two 
years, he had fo much pain in fitting, that he was 
obliged to ufe a perforated chair, made for that pur- 
pofe. But, for fome months pad, his increafed pain 
would not permit him to dt at all, even at his meals, 
which he ufed to take either danding or lying. When 
•he fird came to be in this painful fituation, there ap- 
peared a prominence on the right dde of the peri- 
neum, towards the hinder part of the fcrotum ; 
which, increafing by degrees, felt hard and fuperfi- 
cial for fome time and the parts all about it grew fo 
extremely 
