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This gentleman in his beft health could not make urine in ^ 
full and continued flream, it running out by little and little, and 
with great efforts of ini'piration 5 efpecially when there was but 
a fmall quantity in the bladder, which fatigued him very much, 
rho' the pafling of the urine thro' the neck of the bladder was 
not painful 5 excepting the two or three laft years of his life, by 
reafon of a thick Mucus, which was then difcharged with the 
urine, that Mucus growing in greater quantity, made him ap- 
j)rchenfive it had been caufed by a ftone in his bladder 5 upon 
which he applied himfelf to one, in order to be fearched, who 
accordingly introducing his catheter, and meeting with fome re- 
fiftance in the Urethra, he forced his catheter thro' the mem- 
branes, wherein he made fuch a dilaceration, that the patient 
immediately loft a great quantity of blood 5 which bleeding con- 
tinuing, for ten days, without his feeking any help, brought him 
under very great torments, by reafon the blood was become gru- 
mous in the Urethra-t and could not be forced out, but by \ ery 
violent efl-brts, and acute pain, which cauied a mortification in 
the parr, whereof he died. 
The next day after his death M. SuJJiere opened the body, in 
prelence of Drs. ^awes, Charaberlain, IVoodward, Mr. Sernard 
the furgeon, and leveral others, in which the natural urinary 
bladder was found lying on the left fide of the 'Pehis upon the 
Ilium 5 then learching what fhould be the caufe of this unnatural 
(ituation, he found one large round bag, lying under the 'Pubis 
upon the ReBura, taking up all the cavity of the Hypogafirium-y 
in order to examine the matter more exaftly, he difle£led the 
\Pems and the Re5iujv, and taking them out of the body, he put 
them upon a table, laying open the Urethra^ to examine whe- 
ther there was any carnofity, as the furgeon, who firft introduced 
the catheter, had fufpe£led, but there was none ; and that 2)u^us 
was as plain, and found as could be, except the dilaceration the 
catheter had made therein 5 then introducing a condu6tor into 
the bladder, he divided it quite • and firft it was oblerved, that 
the round bag, which confifted of two bladders, or rather two 
CifteSy were divided from each other only by a membrane 3 that 
which was next the true bladder was Ibmething bigger than it, 
the other which lay on the right fide was much fmaller • each of 
thele Clftes had its orifice opening in the neck of the natural 
bladder Vv'hich was longer than it ufuaily is 5 neither of the Ure- 
ters were inferted into "any of thcfe Ciftes, but into the neck of 
the true bladder, by the orifices of the two Cijies, inlomuch that 
the urine could be equally received by them and the bladder • le- 
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