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According to Ashhurst, the most remarkable case on record is that of the aged Chief Justice Marshal, from whose bladder Dr.Physick of Philadelphia is said to have successfully removed by lateral lithotomy more than 1000 calculi.

Macgregor mentions a case in which 520 small calculi coexisted with a large one weighing 51 ounces.
There is an old record of 32 stones having been removed from a man of eighty-one, a native of Dantzic, 16 of which were as large as a pigeon's egg.

Kelly speaks of 228 calculi in the bladder of a man of seventy-three, 12 being removed before death.

The largest weighed 111 grains.

Goodrich took 96 small stones from the bladder of a lad.


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