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and which have terminated in a fimilar manner, 
fo that feven calculi have palled through the 
wound, only two of which have been preferved, 
and the lead; of them weighs fix grains. During 
the intervals of thefe paroxyfms, the patient enjoys 
a ffate of eafe and health ; and the orifice, of the 
wound, foon after the exclufion of a calculus , re- 
turns to its ufual fize, admitting with difficulty a 
common probe. This cafe, of which I have en- 
deavoured to give you an accurate hillory, appears 
to be a great proof of the powers of nature. The 
! right kidney does not feem to be affedted, and as 
no urine ever pafTes through the wound, it fhould 
: feem, as if the fecretion, by the left kidney, is de- 
ffroyed ; for, as no gravel is now voided with the 
urine, the left ureter is probably clofed. The cafe 
however, though a very interefting one, is not 
perfectly lingular, for delechamtius relates, that 
he faw a man who palled feveral ftones, through 
an abfcel's of the loins, that had become fiftulous. 
. And tulpius, in the fourth book of his Obferva- 
; t tones Medicce , gives the hiftory of a patient, who 
after undergoing much pain, from a nephritic com- 
plaint which he inherited from his father, at 
1 length paffed a ftone, from the kidneys, externally 
i through the loins, which occafioned a callous ulcer, 
through which pus and urine were perpetually flow- 
» ing. Neither time, or any of the remedies employed, 
afforded him any relief, but, the paffage through 
; the loins doling, and the matter taking a different 
eourfvan acute fever was at length brought on, of 
' which the ■ patient died. And the late Mr. 
(.chesel-'DE'N obferves^ that he had three patients, 
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