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The Ephemerides speaks of a calculus coming away with the menstrual fluid. Stones in the heart are mentioned by medical writers, and it is said that two stones as large as almonds were found in the heart of the Earl of Balcarres. Morand speaks of a calculus ejected from the mouth by a woman. An old record says that stones in the brain sometimes are the cause of convulsions.
D'Hericourt reports the case of a girl who died after six months' suffering, whose pineal gland was found petrified, and the incredible size of a chicken's egg.
Blasius, Diemerbroeck, and the Ephemerides, speak of stones in the location of the pineal gland. Salivary calculi are well known; they may lodge in any of the buccal ducts.
There is a record of the case of a man of thirty-seven who suffered great pain and profuse salivation.
It was found that he had a stone as large as a pigeon's egg under his tongue. Umbilical calculi are sometimes seen, and Deani reports such a case. There is a French record of a case of exstrophy of the umbilicus, attended with abnormal concretions. Aetius, Marcellus Donatus, Scaliger, and Schenck mention calculi of the eyelids. There are some extraordinary cases of retention and suppression of urine on record.
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