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bladder, and with an instrument to take out the stone/' 

 And this is certainly the simplest mode of procedure ; 

 though^ in regard to its effects, we are informed by Chabert, 

 that he has on several occasions practised it with results too 

 varying to advise its repetition. 



There are still two other ways of cutting into the blad- 

 der; one, called the high operation — in veterinary practice 

 it becomes the loia, one ; the other, the lateral operation. 

 The former is one now not at all in favour among surgeons, 

 and for the same reasons — which it is not worth while here 

 to enter into — cannot be safely adopted by the veterina- 

 rian ; we will, therefore, proceed at once to the considera- 

 tion of the lateral or ordinary operation. 



The earliest account we have of an operation being 

 performed in our own country is published in 'The Farrier 

 and Naturalist' for 1829, from which I here extract it : — 



"We have been favored by Mr. Randall, of Rotherhlthe, with the in- 

 spection of a calculus, taken from the bladder of a horse about forty- 

 six years ago. It now weighs five and a half ounces, has a rough and 

 uneven surface, from which a portion has been chipped off, and its 

 general outline approaches very near to the shape of an egg. The cal- 

 culus belongs to Mr. Thomas Bidwell, of Swafield, in Norfolk, and was 

 taken from a horse belonging to his grandfather, which had been under 

 the care of a farrier in the neighbourhood, named Miller, who considered 

 the horse to be labouring under disease of the kidneys. The operation 

 was performed by Dr. Shorting, then in surgical practice at North 

 Walsham, and the horse lived for some time afterwards. INIr. Bidwell 

 is unable to furnish the particulars of the operation, he being at the time 

 quite a lad ; but can recollect seeing the horse cast and secured in the 

 orchard, and the stone extracted ; from which time it has remained in 

 the possession of his family and himself." 



The next account of lithotomy comes to us through ' The 

 London Medical and Physical JournaP for October 1824, 

 to which it appears to have been sent by the late INIr, White, 

 V.S. 1st or Royal Dragoons. 



Mr. Mogford, formerly a pupil and assistant of INIr. White's, then in 

 practice at North Lew, near Oakhampton, Devon, was sent for by James 

 Veal, Esq., near Hatherleigh, to attend a horse, who, from being trouble- 



