a severe fit of the gravel

Spanish translation: cálculo renal

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English term or phrase:	a severe fit of the gravel
Spanish translation:	cálculo renal
Entered by:	Ana Juliá

16:33 Aug 3, 2004

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Art/Literary - Religion / Commentary on Proverbs

English term or phrase: a severe fit of the gravel

There are others still who laugh when their hearts are sorrowful, from an ambition of appearing heroic, who cannot be subdued by misfortunes. They are like the Stoic philosopher, who, under ***a severe fit of the gravel***, discovered at once his weakness and desire of concealing it by these words: "Pain, thou mayest rack me, but thou shalt not make me confess that thou are an evil thing."

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cálculo renal

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Parece una manera anticuada de decir "cálculo renal".

http://www.americanrevolution.org/med32.html
"In what is called a fit of the gravel, which is commonly occasioned by a stone sticking in the ureter or some part of the urinary passages..."

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cálculo renal

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