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Inc'n lang; niost of them approach’d to a Triangulär Form. He soundaVVcighc in the Elidier when they (eil down ; and he told me, he was sensi-ble they came down ehe Unters. He loapM and ran sbmetimes to hastentheir Descenr. In a Fortniglu's time, he bath pals’d above 60 of thun bythe Yard. Upon the 20 and 21 oF Jttne, he pals’d z by the Fundamentlince which he pals’d none by the Yard. Two of thera werc Triangulas,pretty big, and one as bigas a littlePlnmb, but of the Shape of a Pear; ofehe fame fändy-Consistence as the former, and of a Greyilh Colour. HisParents told me, that for fome Years, that they liv'd near to the Shore of theFirih of Forts), the Boy ran often after the Womenthut catch'd the Sand Eels(Jmmodites ) and brought home his Pockets füll ot them, which oftentimeshe boil’d without taking Pains (as heought) to free them of the Sand thatHuck to them. This, with the Glutinous Juice of that Fi(h, and the Sandmix’d with the Bread, and otber Aliments he us’d, bath turnisti’d abundantMatter for thefe Stones. lt is like (lincehe never had any Symptom of thisbeforc the Fall he got of late) the Hurt in the hinder part of the Headmight have occafioned some Torpor in the Nerves, so that the Fibrilla in theKidneys could not act so vigorously (as need wa>) in the Separationand Expulsion of the Sand ; and thu; it came to gather and form intoStones.

2. I had the Discoeery of the Chcat of these Stones from Dr. Pitcairn, n e cbawho was at the Pains to find it out. This roguish Boy to be kept from jo^wiifee Dr ‘School, had so much Cunning as to imposc upon a fond Mother and other i.\s6. f g'sg.People.

LXXII- A Divineabout 70 Years of Age, afrer he had thefe 1 o Years sof- Sro ^ Sfore .fer’dmuch from a confirm’d St one he hath in his Eiadder , in 1697, Paks ai'otied, h a.Vvast numher of Sltces of several Figures, many of themCornered and Pointed ■ ^ ob 'f ,bhl 2 '^much of the thickness of a Shilling Sterling ; White within and Smootb, but" ' + ' f ’ 2without ofa Dark Colour; with Pain, and somerimes a Supprejjton of Urinefor several Hoursprecedcth them ; he makethUseof the usual Remedies inthe Intervals he hath tolerable good Health.

I am also told by an expert Physician of 2 Paticnts of his, the one yetalive, who after palsing an incredible numberof thefe S lices, is now in per-sedi Health, and tree ot that Disease. The other, who dy’d long ago, af-ter passing tor along time such Sltces, became freeof the Disease, and whenbis Body was open’d at his Death, no St one nor Slices were found in hisEiadder.

LXXIII. i. The Patient, fromwhom this Stone was cut, told me, That ^sz^ecm cutabout 8 Years before it wastaken from him, hefuffer’dan exceeding Cold s’ om unier ,h 'in a Winter Sea-Voyage, which lasted much longer than he expected ; and mthat, not long after his Landing, he found a certain Nodus or hard Lump in f- 4° 6i -the very place whence this Stone was Cut. From that time, upon all trefihCold-taking he fuffer’d much Pain, in that Part especially; and yet, thatCold being once over, that Part was no more Painlul than the reit of his

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