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being brougbt from a foreign Country, and a common 
vogue andefteem they have got in the World, then from 
any intrinfick vertue they have in the cure of Difeafes ; 
and that which feems moft to recommend them is their 
extravagant Price : Whereas we can name twenty Me- 
dicines in the Materia MeJica, that each of them is as 
cfleftual, if not more, in the Cure of Difeafes, and to 
be procured at lefs Charges. 
Vin. Part of a Letter from Mr. BufTictc to 
Dr. Slbanc, wherein he giz^es an Acconnt of 
the new way of Cutting for the Stone by the 
Hermit^ with his Opinion of it. 
H Ere is the Defcription of the way of performing^ 
the Operation, tor the extra<Stion of the Stone out 
of the Bladder, by Brother James an Hermit m France^ 
as I received it from Varis. 
He maketh ufe of a Steel StafT, much bigger and 
Ihorter than thofe which are commonly made ufe of; 
it is Ihorter from the top to the bending of it, it bends 
more than ours, he hath but two, one for Men and ano- 
th^ for Children. 
His Gondu<9:or is flender and longer than ours, the 
point whereof, which goes into the Bladder, being of 
the Figure of a Lozenge, is wide and open in the extre- 
mity. 
His Forceps have longer branches than ours ,- but the 
holds of them are Ihorter and wider^ with manylar^ 
Teeth within. 
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