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Knife Was in all abuut 6 \ Inches long with aHarrs-Horn Haft: The Curiosi-tyofthcCase dtd oblige M Wolf gang Chris. Wejenem. Physician ro theEleclor of Brandenburg, totake care of him. The Knife was feit to havechang’d its Position feveral times, and after a few Months ceas’d to bcvtry troubltlöme, and in about a Yiar was so niuch diminilh’d, as to bedif-sicultto be feit from without. Not long aber an angry Tumour with In-fiammation broke out z Fingers breadth below ihe Pit of the Stomach,which being Ripen’d, the Apoßhem was open’d May 24. 1692. and beingkept open, the Point of the Knife Erst apptar’d thereat 1 8. following.The Point they fisten’d with a Silk-Thread, and the Wound being wi-den’d, the Knife was drawn out thereat Aug. 2. (a Year and 7 Months af-t<r it had been swallow’dj and in a littletiine the Lad wasptrfectly weihThe Knife was exccedingly consum’d in all its Dimensions.
r,vo copfir- XV. About l o Ycarsago my Son, Will. Underhill, Aged about 3 Years,swal-luneify Jcblu low'd by accident t wo Lopper Farthings, but half a Year One after the other.m worcester s tji Upon the first Farthing, he eat nothing for 10 Days, andcomplain’d of ad*rwn ,ei ». S' g reat Pain at his Stomach, anddrivel’d as if he had been Salivated; and of-r. 4-H- ten seid he had a Nauscous Venemous Taste in his Mcuth, the Farthing notcoming from him in half a Year. After the swallowing of the sccond Far-thing he began byderees to lose his Limbs, his Breast growing narro w, andthe Child Consümptive; who was after perfectly cur’d by the Bath , andhis Breast dilated and grew broad as before.
ufDisc‘s'c*u,'i XVI. i. In Feh. or Mir. 169% one Ibo. Gobßll of SbeUen near ColeßiiÜ inb swiUowing Warwickfnre, (a Lean Spare Man, aged about 2 6 or 27) told me, thatoThoIi. n. -J\. about 3 Years before he wasextreamly tortur’d with Wind And one Dayt - 190. makinga complaint to an Old Wonian in the Neighbourhood, Ihe advis d
him to swallow round white Pcbbles, which he did as oft as he had occasi-00, and the Stones pasting easily through him he found great Relief. Butalter Ibme Months being sciz’d with a violent Fit, he swallow’d as usuallyabout 9 Stones; which not pasting he rcpeated the Dole till he had taken a-bove 200. Hehadthese Stones in him above 2 Years and a half when hefirst came to me, and then complain’d, that his Appetite was gone, that hecould Digest nothing, but threw up every thing he eat. Upon examininghis Belly I found the Stones lay almost as low as the Os Bubis, and thrust-ing my Fingers just above that Bane, so that the lower part of the Abdtrme» might lie on my Hand, I could with the Motion of my Hand fhakethem and make them rattle, as if they had been in a Bag. Hereupon Icaus’d a Ladder to be sct against a Wall, and hung him by the Harns up-on it with his Head downwards; when in thi» Posture, he told me, theStones were gotupto his Stomach but being sct down upon his Feet, aftera very small time, we could plainly hear the Stones drop distinctly oneafter another.
If his Body be not Laxative, he Vomits all he Eats or Drinks ; to preventwhich he «ommonly keeps it open withWhey. As he lies in Bed the Stones
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