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purulent effusion, owing to the great size of the stone, and the force 

 required to extract it. The mode of operating in his fifteen first 

 cases, was by the lateral incision and the gorget. In the thirteen 

 following, by the knife, and in the three last by the bi-lateral method. 



Dr. Eve, of Georgia, has operated eight times, including one 

 female, all of which were successful. Dr. Mussey, of Cincinnati, 

 informs us that he has cut thirty -two patients for stone, all of which 

 cases have been successful but two. 



From the Pennsylvania Hospital your committee have procured 

 a tabular statement, which is herewith submitted as a part of their 

 report, of all the patients cut in that Institution from its founda- 

 tion in 1752 to the 1st of May, 1848, which, though in some re- 

 spects imperfect, is nevertheless valuable, as exhibiting the largest 

 mass of experience in calculus, which has yet been furnished by 

 any American Institution. 



