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XII. The Cafe of a Patient voiding Stones 
through a ffulous Sore in the Loins , 
without any co? / icomitant Difcharge of 
TJrine hy the fame Pajfage : In a Let- 
ter to Dr. Maty, from Mr. S. F. 
Simmons. 
Reddc,Dec. 23, ~T Have taken the liberty of addreffing 
1774 ’ 1 this letter to you, becaufe, from 
your fituation as Secretary to the Royal Society, 
and the reputation, you have acquired, in the lite- 
rary world, l have no doubt of your being very 
ready to receive it favourably. If you think it 
iufficiently interefting, you will be pleafed to com- 
municate it to the Royal Society ; but if you 
think, that it has neither enough of novelty, or 
utility, to merit a place in their Tranfadtions, I 
beg the favour of you, to let it reft with you. 
eleanor Pilcher, the fubjedt of it, is about 
52 years of age, and lives at Littlebourn in Kent. 
About twenty-five years ago fhe firft began to 
complain of pain in her back, of a difficulty in 
making water, and of other nephritic fymptoms, 
which gradually increafed. Soon after this the 
began to void gravel with her urine, and to pafs 
feveral very fmall ftones ; and thefe fymptoms 
continued to return very frequently, and with 
much 
