>(i'm reading a biography of Samuel Pepys at the moment. He had a gall stone removed with no anaesthetic. It makes you eyes water.
It was a bladder stone, apparently the size of a (real) tennis ball:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys#Illness , especially notes 18 and 19 (shudder)
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