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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XV
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Cordier of Kansas City, Mo., successfully removed a renal calculus weighing over three ounces from a woman of forty-two.

The accompanying illustration shows the actual size of the calculus.
At the University College Hospital, London, there are exhibited 485 gall-stones that were found postmortem in a gall-bladder.

Vanzetti reports the removal of a preputial calculus weighing 224 grams.
Phillipe mentions the removal of a calculus weighing 50 grams from the prepuce of an Arab boy of seven.

Croft gives an account of some preputial calculi removed from two natives of the Solomon Islands by an emigrant medical officer in Fiji.

In one case 22 small stones were removed, and in the other a single calculus weighing one ounce 110 grains.


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