Medical Extracts

Mr. Ilolson, who was Consul for the English at Venice, having been long afflicted with the Stone in the Kidney, was at length attacked with a Fit of that Duration and Violence, that it reduced him almost to Despair; and finding no relief from any Means that had been used, and being under the greatest Extremity of Pain imaginable, he addressed himself to Dominicus de Marchettis, a famed and experienced Physician at Padua, begging of him that he would be pleased to cut the Stone out of his Kidney, being persuaded that there remained no other Method capable of relieving him; adding, that he was not insensible of the