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gime, there was instituted, about forty years ago, at Lu- 

 iieville, in Lorraine, an hospital for the exclusive relief of 

 calculus and gravelly patients. In that interval, sixteen 

 hundred and tAventy-nine, of both sexes, were admitted, 

 and operated upon. Of these, fifteen hundred and sixty- 

 four were males, and only sixty-five females. 



Citizen Saucerotte, an associate of the institute, to whom 

 we are indebted for these interesting details, annexes ta- 

 bles indicative of the number of these patients, that oc- 

 curred at the different periods of life, from the age of 

 one, up to seventy-eight. To these, as too extensive to be 

 inserted here, I would beg leave to refer; and shall satisfy 

 myself with some extracts only, expressive of the general 

 result. 



AOE or PATIENTS. NBMB5R OP PATIENTS. 



MALE SEX. 



1 year to 2 i 



2 years 14 



3 79 



4 131 



5 145 



6 147 



From this age, which afforded the maximum of the 

 number of patients, we find a gradual declension, as fol- 

 lows. 



AGF, 



