Samuel PepysThis day being washing day and my maid Susan ill, or would be thought so, put my house so out of order that we had no pleasure almost in anything, my wife being troubled thereat for want of a good cook-maid.
And moreover I cannot have my dinner as I ought in memory of my being cut for the stone, but I must have it a day or two hence.
nodename@samuelpepys cut for the stone? What?
Mark Asser@nodename Sam had a bladder stone removed in 1658 or thereabouts. No anaesthetic of course. He was lucky to survive, and knew it.