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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XV
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At one end was a polished surface that corresponded with a similar surface on a smaller stone that lay against it; the latter calculus was shaped like a lima bean, and weighed 60 grains.

Hunt speaks of eight calculi removed from the urethra of a boy of five.

Herman and the Ephemerides mention cases of calculi in the seminal vesicles.
Calcareous degeneration is seen in the ovary, and Peterman speaks of a stone in the ovary.

Uterine calculi are described by Cuevas and Harlow; the latter mentions that the calculus he saw was egg-shaped.

There is an old chronicle of a stone taken from the womb of a woman near Trent, Somersetshire, at Easter, 1666, that weighed four ounces.


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