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and very readily taking hold of the bodkin, yet he could not 
move it 5 he then preffed his finger thro' the dilatation into the 
bladder, and tried to bring the whole bodkin into the bladder, 
but all m vain 5 nor could he turn it one way or other, but 
round like a fpindle, the fmaller end, refting as he thought, 
upon the Ifchlumj all his attempts this way proving fruitlefs, 
and her pain increafing, he attempted to extraH it in the man- 
ner of the higher operation for the ftone^ which was as fol- 
lows, in the prefence of Drs. Maddiny MolyneatiXy and 
Smith. 
Having placed her in a convenient pofturc, he put his finger 
into the Vagina Uteris and felt the bodkin lying clofe to it on 
the ourfide , whilft he held his finger there, he prefTed with 
his lefr hand above the 0$ ^uhis^ where he felt the head or 
thickeft end of the bodkin 5 and Dr. Smith putting his finger 
into the Vagina^ prefTed hard againft the bodkin, and held it 
very firm and fteady, whilft Mr. 'Prohy made an incifion about 
an inch and a half in length, on the outfide of the right 
Mufcidus ReBiiS^ till he came to the bladder 5 he then paf- 
fed his fore-finger and thumb into the wound, and got hold of 
the head of the bodkin ( the fubftance of the bladder only inter- 
pofing) upon which he cut the bladder with a fmall crooked 
biftory, and gently prefiing with his finger and thumb, the 
bodkm flipt out of the bladder berwten them, by which he 
extra6ieci it very eafily : he dreiTed the wound, and in lefs than 
a month, ihe was perfectly cured : The bodkin was cue out of 
her bladder that day nine weeks fhe fwailowed it 5 there had 
been but half the bodkin in her bladder, which was incrufta- 
ted with a gravelly calculous matter j the other half was with- 
out the bladder in the CPelviSy its point refting upon the 
J/chium. 
'A double Pear by Mr. Edmund Pitt. Phil. Tranf. N**. z6o. 
p. 470. 
MR. ^itt had a double pear, one part growing over, and 
fixed in the other, not unlike an acorn in its cup 5 from 
the edges of the lower pear there gtew up five leaves of va- 
rious magnitude, at almoft equal diftances from each other; 
the largeft was an inch long, half an inch broad, as large again 
as the fmalleft leaf; thefe leaves grew out of the fkin of the 
lower pear, and had no fibres rifing from itscarnous part; the 
largeft of the leaves had a fibre of the bignefs of a fmall hair, 
continued from the place, where the leaf rifes, juft within the 
ikin 
