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of the higher operation for the stone, which was as follows, in the presence of 

 Doctors Madden, Molyneux, and Smith. Having placed her in a convenient 

 posture, I put my finger into the vngina uteri, and felt tiie bodkin lying close 

 to it on the outside, whilst I held my finger there, I pressed with my left hand 

 above the OS pubis, where I felt the head or thicker end of the bodkin. I then 

 removed my right hand, and desired Doctor Smith to put his finger into the 

 vagina, as I had done before, and press hard against the bodkin, which he did 

 and held it very firm and steady, whilst I made an incision about IJ inch in 

 length on the outside of the right musculus rectus, till I came to the bladder. 

 I then passed my fore-finger and thumb into the wound, and got hold of the 

 head of the bodkin, the substance of the bladder only being between ; upon 

 which, with a small crooked history, I cut the bladder, and by gently pressing 

 my finger and thumb the bodkin slipped out of the bladder between them, by 

 which I very easily extracted it. I dressed the wound and put her into bed, and 

 in less than a month she was perfectly cured. 



The bodkin was cut out of her bladder exactly Q weeks after she swallowed 

 it. Only half the bodkin was in the bladder, and it was incrustated with a 

 gravelly calculous matter ; the other part was out of the bladder in the pelvis, 

 the point resting on the ischium. 



On the Viper and some other Poisons. By Sir Theodore De Mayerne ; and com- 

 municated by the late Sir Theodore De Faux, M. D. and F. R. S. N° 260, 

 p. 459. 



Through some inadvertence this is a republication, verbatim, of Sir Theo- 

 dore Mayerne's observation on the viper, &c. inserted in tiie I8th vol. p. 62, 

 of the original Transactions, and in the 3d vol. p. 653, of this Abridgment. 



^ Letter from Dr. George Hickes, concerning the Saxon Antiquity mentioned 

 N° 247 * of these Transactiojis; with an Account of his Book now in the Press 

 at Oxford. N° 260, p. 464. 



Dr. Hicks thinks the picture in King Alfred's antiquity might be the picture 

 of ills patron St. Cuthbert, whom it is said, both he and his mother in one 

 night dreamed they saw and heard speak the same words, in which he told them 

 he should conquer the Danes, ;mdbea great king, and bidding him be of good 

 courage. This story of St. Cuthbert's appearing to King Alfred is at large in 

 Wi'iliam of Malmsbury. 



The title of the book mentioned above is as follows : Linguarum Vett. Sep- 

 tentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-criticus et Archaeologicus. Accedit Cata- 



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