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PARTICULARS OF STONE-EATERS. 127
Scott, in support of the cats and the apothecary, and
other advocates in favour of persons who were nearer
of kin, pronounced the following decree, viz :
“ That the bequest to Mr. Offey, the apothecary,
be struck out of the will, as being no part of the real will
of the deceased, and that probate be granted to Francis
Brown, Esq. the next of kin in lieu of the said Mr.
Offey ; that the legacies of 25Z. per annum for the main-
tenance of the five cats, and the bequest to St. George’s
and Middlesex hospitals, of 1000/. each, together with
the legacies of the servants, be confirmed, as being the
will of the deceased.”
Particulars relative to Persons who swallowed Stones,
and wonderful Account of a Stone-eater.
(From the Philos. Transact. No. 253.)
SlR Charles Hall, a celebrated physician of the 17th
century, relates the following very remarkable case of a
man who accustomed himself to swallow stones.—One
Thomas Gobsill, a lean man, aged about 26 or 27 years,
being for three years extremely tortured with wind, was
advised to swallow round white pebbles, which he did,
as often as the fit returned, and the stones passing easily
through him, he found great relief from the practice.
Being seized some months afterwards with a violent fit of
his disorder, he swallowed, as usual, about nine stones,
which not passing, he repeated the dose, till he had taken
above two hundred. These stones were lodged in his
belly two years and a half, when he first applied to Sir
Charles Hall; and then he complained that his appetite
was gone, that he could digest nothing, but threw up
whatever he ate. Sir Charles, upon examination, found
that the stones were situated in the lower part of the ab-
domen, and that, with its motion, he could shake, and
make
Scott, in support of the cats and the apothecary, and
other advocates in favour of persons who were nearer
of kin, pronounced the following decree, viz :
“ That the bequest to Mr. Offey, the apothecary,
be struck out of the will, as being no part of the real will
of the deceased, and that probate be granted to Francis
Brown, Esq. the next of kin in lieu of the said Mr.
Offey ; that the legacies of 25Z. per annum for the main-
tenance of the five cats, and the bequest to St. George’s
and Middlesex hospitals, of 1000/. each, together with
the legacies of the servants, be confirmed, as being the
will of the deceased.”
Particulars relative to Persons who swallowed Stones,
and wonderful Account of a Stone-eater.
(From the Philos. Transact. No. 253.)
SlR Charles Hall, a celebrated physician of the 17th
century, relates the following very remarkable case of a
man who accustomed himself to swallow stones.—One
Thomas Gobsill, a lean man, aged about 26 or 27 years,
being for three years extremely tortured with wind, was
advised to swallow round white pebbles, which he did,
as often as the fit returned, and the stones passing easily
through him, he found great relief from the practice.
Being seized some months afterwards with a violent fit of
his disorder, he swallowed, as usual, about nine stones,
which not passing, he repeated the dose, till he had taken
above two hundred. These stones were lodged in his
belly two years and a half, when he first applied to Sir
Charles Hall; and then he complained that his appetite
was gone, that he could digest nothing, but threw up
whatever he ate. Sir Charles, upon examination, found
that the stones were situated in the lower part of the ab-
domen, and that, with its motion, he could shake, and
make