The anatomy of human bodies, comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art to which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox & measles : together with several practical observations and experienced cures ... / written in Latin by Ijsbrand de Diemerbroeck ... ; translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same, by William Salmon ...

OBSERVATION LXXV. Nephritic Pain.

THE Son of Lieutenant St. George, about eighteen years of age, who had been always troubled with Gravel from his Infancy, and had often voided little Stones, in Ianuary, was so tormented with a Stone that stuck in both Ureters, that he knew not where to turn himself: For Cure I prescribed him this Apozem,

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This being taken the same, and the next day, the Pain ceased, after he had voided a small Stone and much Gravel.

The next Month he was troubled with the same Pains, but then, by taking the said Decoction, the Stone was easily brought down through the Ureters into the Bladder; but then, when it came into the Yard, it was so big it could not pass, but obstructed the Urine with most cruel Torture, which the Father not being able to bear, there being no Chyrurgeon to be sent for, with a Razor, made a small Wound underneath the Urinary Passage, where the Stone stuck; which done, the Stone spurted out, and the Urine followed in great quantity. The Wound was consolidated afterwards, sooner than we imagined, with the Application of a few Plaisters.