A Case of Renal Calculus

The following case is interesting from the completeness of the history and the satisfactory termination. Mr. G., European, merchant by occupation, age thirty-eight years, consulted me in September of this year for severe pain in the back and left loin ; he gave me a gouty family history and in regard to his present trouble said that he had had a somewhat similar attack a year previously which had passed off without any treatment; in the interval he had had no pain but occasional feeling of discomfort in the left loin; the bowels were as a rule