Among the older records of numerous calculi Burnett mentions 70; Desault, over 200; the Ephemerides, 120; Weickman, over 100; Fabricius Hildanus, 2000 in two years; and there is a remarkable case of 10,000 in all issuing from a young girl.

Greenhow mentions 60 stones removed from the bladder.

An older issue of The Lancet contains an account of lithotrity performed on the same patient 48 times.
Occasionally the calculi are discharged spontaneously.

Trioen mentions the issue of a calculus through a perineal aperture, and there are many similar cases on record.

There is an old record of a stone weighing five ounces being passed by the penis.