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fome fmall uneafinefs in making water, and in two 
or three days I voided with my urine fomething of a 
flat fhape about the bignefs of a filver peny, cover’d 
with a foft white mucus, which, when it was dry, 
was plainly of a ftony fubftance j and after that have 
never been troubled with the leafl: fymptom of that 
cruel diforder ; and I found myfelf fo well in the 
country laft year, that, contrary to the advice of all my 
friends, I undertook in my coach a journey toChatf- 
worth in Derbyfhire from my houfe in the country, 
at leafl: 160 miles, to pay a vifit to the Duke of 
Devonfhire, the horfes going as round a trot as they 
could conveniently, according to the road j and the 
laft io or rather 1 5 miles, from Hardwicke to Chatf- 
worth, a moft rugged and rocky way, we neither 
fpared ourfelves nor our horfes ; and the great fhocks 
upon the ftones broke the fprings of my coach, but 
gave me not the leaft uneafinefs, and I have ever 
fince continued with refpedt to my former diforder, 
as well as ever I was in my life ; but I have now- 
and-then voided, after I have fat a great while in 
the Houfe of Commons, fome red gravel. 
As I never perceived, that I voided during my ill- 
nefs any flecks of a ftone, befides that one, which l 
have mentioned above, and was never fearched by an 
inftrument ; I can no otherwife pronounce it to be the 
ftone, unlefs by the fymptoms, which I felt, and the 
judgment of the furgeon and apothecary, who at- 
tended me, from thefe fymptoms. But it is very 
remarkable, as I faid before, that I never felt 
thofe fymptoms, while I lay in bed, and not to 
fo great a degree upon my couch, as upon my 
legs ; which looks as if the pofture made a great 
alteration. And that methinks could not be the 
cafe. 
