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to as great a bulk as the- part containing it will ad- 
mit of. 
. Now, “ the urethra, in cafes of this kind,” ac- 
cording to the obfervation of my learned friend, 
“ becomes a cyft, which cyft acquires a great degree 
“ of hardnefs, and remains compact and whole, til! 
an inflammation is produced by its incapacity of 
“ admitting any farther diftenfioa; which inflam- 
“ mation is foon after communicated to the integu- 
“ ments, by which means they become painful, 
“ tender, and are eafily lacerated.” And this de- 
feription feems to correfpond exactly with what hath 
happened in the cafe of this old man. 
Ever fince the /tone came away, this patient hath 
difeharged no urine but by the wound ; which, when 
I laft faw him, was fo much contracted, as to be no 
bigger than to admit into it a fmall- finger, and the 
parts were grown callous about it. I would have re- 
commended him to proper care on that occafion ; but 
he would by no means hearken to me; feeming to be 
very happy in being freed from the cruel burden of 
the done; and not regarding, I fuppofe, at his time 
of life, whether he could be helped in the difeharge 
of his urine any other way. 
Hatton-Gardcn, London, Nov. 12, 1761. 
AS I am defired by Dr. Frewen, in a letter to me, 
v bearing date the 7th inftant, to add whatever I 
/hall think expedient to his memoir, I have, in con- 
fequence of this requeft, taken the liberty of ob- 
ferving, from a former letter of Dr. Frewen to me, 
bearing date the 17th of October laft, that when this 
furprizingly large calculus was firft voided, which was 
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