The treatment of the sick in Norwich during the seventeenth century / by Charles Williams, F.R.C.S.E., senior surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

  • Williams, Charles, 1827-1907
Date:
1903
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Credit: The treatment of the sick in Norwich during the seventeenth century / by Charles Williams, F.R.C.S.E., senior surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    measured fifteen inches in circumference, and is preserved in the Pathological Museum at Cambridge. Its great density indicates its slow formation, which con¬ tinued probably to form during many years in the bladder. This organ gradually became accustomed to it and did not resent its presence, or object to its weight, hence the comparatively little suffering and the long duration of life. The following extract is taken from the Register of the parish of St. Mary, Bury St. Edmund’s: “July 28, 1662. Ann the wife of Thomas Raisin, who had a stone taken from her when she was dead, that did weigh 2 pounds and three quarters. She was buried the above date.” Mention is also made of Mr. Gutteridge, under the name of Goodrick, in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. ii., 1667, by Dr. Nathaniel Fairfax, who observes: “ Mr. Goodrick, a chirurgeon of Bury St. Edmunds, affirmed to me himself, cutting a lad of the stone, for which he has a great name, took out thence at one time 96 small stones all of them of unlike shape, size, corners, and sides, some of which were so bestowed as to slide upon others, and had thereby worn their flats to a wonderful slickness. He assured me also that in the same place, another, when dead, had a stone taken from her almost as big as a new-born child’s head, and much of that shape.” This observation unquestionably has reference to the case of Mrs. Raisin. Another instance of a large calculus occurred about the same date as that of Mrs. Raisin. It was removed, after death, from Sir Thomas Adams, Bart., of Sprowston Hall, Norwich, and weighed 25 ounces, a circumstance duly recorded on his monument in Sprowston church. The calculus is wholly composed of uric acid regularly laminated, and is preserved in the Museum of St. Thomas’s Hospital,