ounces; Kline, one of 13 ounces 30
grains; Mayo of Winchester, 14 ounces two drams; Cheselden, 12 ounces;
and Pare in 1570 removed a calculus weighing nine ounces. Sir Astley
Cooper remarks that the largest stone he ever saw weighed four ounces,
and that the patient died within four hours after its removal. Before
the Royal Society of London in 1684 Birch reported an account of a
calculus weighing five ounces. Fabricius Hildanus mentions calculi
weighing 20 and 21 ounces; Camper, 13 ounces; Foschini, 19 ounces six
drams; Garmannus, 25 ounces; Greenfield, 19 ounces; Heberden, 32
ounces; Wrisberg, 20 ounces; Launai, 51 ounces; Lemery, 27 ounces;
Paget, in Kuhn's Journal, 27 ounces (from a woman); Pauli, 19 ounces;
Rudolphi, 28 ounces; Tozzetti, 39 ounces; Threpland, 35 ounces; and
there is a record of a calculus weighing over six pounds. There is
preserved in Trinity College, Cambridge, a stone weighing 34 ounces
taken from the bladder of the wife of Thomas Raisin, by Gutteridge, a
surgeon of Norwich. This stone was afterward sent to King Charles II
for inspection. In his "Journey to Paris" Dr. Lister said that he saw a
stone which weighed 51 ounces; it had been taken from one of the
religious brothers in June, 1690, and placed in the Hopital de la
Charite. It was said that the monk died after the operation. There is a
record of a calculus taken from the bladder of an individual living in
Aberdeen. This stone weighed two pounds, three ounces, and six drams.
In the Hunterian Museum in London there is a stone weighing 44 ounces,
and measuring 16 inches in circumference. By suprapubic operation
Duguise removed a stone weighing 31 ounces from a patient who survived
six days. A Belgian surgeon by the name of Uytterhoeven, by the
suprapubic method extracted a concretion weighing two pounds and
measuring 6 1/2 inches long and four wide. Frere Come performed a high
operation on a patient who died the next day after the removal of a
24-ounce calculus. Verduc mentions a calculus weighing three pounds
three ounces. It was said that a vesical calculus was seen in a dead
boy at St. Edmund's which was as large as the head of a new-born child.
It has been remarked that Thomas Adams, Lord Mayor of London, who died
at the age of eighty-two, had in his bladder at the time of his death a
stone which filled the whole cavity, and which was grooved from the
ureters to the urethral opening, thus allowing the passage of urine.
Recent records o