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-on! drew the Stone; then diffcding the Body, 1 
found the Bladder cut through, and its Arteries, 
which can hardly be avoided , the Bladder being then 
fo much Contrafted, that both fides of the Bladder 
are cut, before the Operator either feel the Stone , or fee 
any Urine running out. 
I took a third Body, in the Bladder of which ! 
put a very large Stone, the Staff being in it, I made 
the Incifion upon the fat Protuberancy, under the 
Ifihium Bone | and piercing the Bladder below the 
Staff, I found immediately the Stone with the point of 
the Knife, with which I cut the Bladder , the length 
of an Inch ; through which having introduced the 
Conduftor, and then the Forceps, I got bold of the 
Stone and drew it out very eafily. Then I did DiC- 
kdi the Body, and found, that neither the VefcicuU Se- 
minaUs , nor gny Artery had been cut , by rea- 
fon that the weight of the Stone prefled the bot- 
tom of the Bladder ; lower than the Veficula^s and 
Arteries. 
My Opinion is then , that this way might be made 
ufe of when the Stone is very big^ and willingly, I 
would prefer it to the old way for by this way 
we a*'oid that extraordinary and violent dilatation |of 
the Neck of the Bladder , which the Stone cau- 
feth when it is very big, and which is the caufe of the 
Inflamation and Mortification of the Bladder that killer h 
the Patient. 
But when the Stone is fmall, or of but an in- 
different bigoefs , the old way is eafier and fii- 
rer. 
Though I have not tried this way upon Wo- 
|men , yet I cannot approve it at all , fince one 
pnnot avoid cutting the Neck of the Vieru$^ the Ci- 
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