Calculi

in size from that of a barleycorn to a large pea. During the last twelve months no calculi have been discharged; at the same time the sufferings of the patient, from distinct symptoms of stone in the bladder, have become very severe. The only common symptom absent in this case is the abrupt stop to the stream of urine during its discharge. On sounding the patient soon after admission, Mr. Key ascertained that the symptoms depended on numerous calculi, rather small insize: he thought the bladder might contain twelve or fifteen of them, and that their size probably admitted of removal by the urethra, which was the more desirable as the patient's ill state of health entirely forbad the operation of lithotomy. His appearance was that of a previously hale man, now suffering severely from disease: his system was feverish and irritable from