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Tcry fimilar to one another ; only with 

 this difference, that the one was taken 

 from a living, the other from a dead 

 fubjedl. The (lone marked No. i. tab. 6.1 

 extradled from a young man, a patient ih 

 our infirmary, about five years ago. He 

 had been diftrefled with all the ordinary 

 fymptotns of a flonc from his infancy ; 

 but, for two years before his admiflion 

 into the hofpital, he had been under the 

 mofl racking pain, without any inter- 

 vals of eafe, attended with a conftant7?i/- 

 licidium urinae. 



Upon founding him, I was foon con- 

 vinced that the catheter touched a flone 

 without its entering the bladder ; and, 

 •upon pufhing the catheter, I found a 

 very firm and flrong refiftance, which 

 made me give up any thoughts of pafhng 

 the catheter into the cavity of the blad- 

 der. Upon introducing my finger in 

 ano, I was not only fenfible that a flone 

 was lodged in the bulbous part of the 

 urethra, but was likewife fatisfied from 

 the touch, that there was a flone, or fome 

 extraneous fubflance, within the fphindl- 



