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IX. An Account of the Right Honourable 
Horace Walpole Efq\ drawn up by him- 
Read Jan. 24. A BOUT eighteen years ago, when 
JL\. his majefty refided at Hampton- 
Court, I was taken ill there with what was thought 
to be a fit of the colic only, being fubjedt to that 
diforder, when I was very young ; and the phyfician 
treated me accordingly. When fome days after I was 
got perfectly well, in making water one morning I 
voided a ftone in the pot about the bignefs of a bar- 
ley-corn, which without doubt had occafion’d, whilff: 
it lay in the ureter , the colical pain, which I had felt. 
From that time I was frequently troubled withfevere 
fits of the fame pain, which lafled, until, by turpen- 
tine clyfters, and other lubricating medicines, I had 
brought away a ftone. 
Being advifed at laft to drink a pint of whey turn’d 
with cream of tartar every morning, and having fol- 
lowed that method from the beginning of May to 
November, at the end of two years, during which 
time my pains frequently returned and ended in the 
fame manner, I found myfelf at laft perfectly cured; 
for, having continued to drink the whey yearly, I 
continued free from thofe pains, voiding only at 
* The fupplement of this cafe continued till April 17S 2 ’ WiH 
be publifhed in thefe Tranfa&ions, as read before the Society 
June 4, 1752. 
April 1750. 
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