The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Joshua Spurret ( - )

References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Fourscore Stones of different Forms and Bigness, some an Inch and a half long, others roundish and rugged, voided from the Penis of an aged Minister, Mr. Creswick of Beghall, and sent me by his Executor Mr. Priestly, who had a Box containing about Six hundred of them; they are dark coloured and gritty. Some large Stones voided, and others cut out of the Urethra of Joshua, the Son of Thomas Spurret of Leedes; two very odd ones taken out of the right Kidney, and two very large found in the Bladder when he was dissected Nov. 1711. by the ingenious Mr. S. Pollard, who presented them to me: One of them weighed near two Ounces, is 5 ½ Inches in Circumference one Way, and 4 the other. These are whiter and smoother than the Rest, but broader.