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III. Dr. Mullineux his Account of a Stone of 
through the Urethra by a Woman in Dublin. 
TC TOmen are made by Nature of a more nice Com 
are therefore liable to many Infirmities that Men are not 
the Jeaft fubjed: to. Yet in one of the moft painful that 
affli&s the Body, the Stone in the Bladder, they have 
much the advantage, and are more rarely troubled with 
it than Men. 
For among the two vaft Collections of Stones, that 
amount at leaft to (everal Thoufands, kept together in 
the Hofpitals at Paris V Hotel Dim and la Charity cut 
out only of fuch as come thither to be cured, not one in 
an Hundred, I might fafely fay more, is taken out of a 
Woman. 
This remarkable difference muft certainly proceed 
from the Uritiary Paflage in this Sex, being fliorter, lar- 
ger, and more apt to dilate* fo that for the moft part, 
when Gravel, or a fort of vifcous claiy matter, which I 
take to be the chief Caufe of the Generation of the 
Stone, falls into the Bladder, 'tis (uddenly and eafily di£ 
charged, e're it can cohere together and form a Stone of 
any large Bulk, which cannot fb frequently happen in 
Meg, by reafbn of the narrowneft, crookednefs, and 
length of the Paflage of the Vrethra. 
However it fometimes comes to pais, that even in 
W omen, either from a more depending, or le(s elevated 
Pofture than ufual in their Bladder, or that the matter 
forming the Stone adheres to fome part of its Mem- 
branes, fb that it cannot fall in the Urinary Parage, till 
an extraordinary 
Frame than Merr, and 
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