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hazardous Section of the Stone ; though feme among 
the Ancients defcribe the particular manner how the 
Operation is to be perform' d in this Sex ; as s£lm 
Tetr.q. Sermon 4. cap. 99. And among the Moderns, 
Mbnfieur Tolet Traite de la Lithotomie > Chaptt. 15. 
pag, izz. 
For firfce Nature by her own Power, without the AC 
fiftance of any Help or Remedies, could disbur then her 
felf, and force away fuch large Stones as thefe here de- 
fcrib'd, why may we not probably conclude, That even 
thofe ftill of a larger, if there be any fuch bred in Wo- 
men, as one may well queftion, fince all thofe Accounts 
of Stones of prodigious Bulk bred in the Bladder, are 
related of Men only ; as if Nature kept fbmewhat the 
fame Rule of Proportion in thefe fort of Productions, as 
Ihe oblerves generally in the Stature of Men and Wo- 
men : I fay, why may not they be brought away, by 
putting the BoJy into a convenient Pofture, and fo by 
the Hand and Fingers forcing the Stone into the Urinary 
Paflage, which by Application of relaxing and ftrongly 
emollient Remedies, may be fb dilated, as to give a tree 
Paflage to the Stone without any forceable Se&ion ? 
But this I leave to be determin'd by fuch, who lighting 
upon proper Subjects, may. have occafion hereafter to 
try the Succefsof this Practice, which if found toanfwer 
Expectation,* may be oi folid and real ufe. 
July 14 An* 169.T. 
C Ince my writing the foregoing Account, Mr. Thvm. 
i S Proby, an ingenious Chyrurgion of this Town, has 
lately in two Inftances of Fad, fuccefsfully-demonftrated 
the Pra&icablenefs of what I then propofed only with 
Probability, touching the Extraftion of- Stones bred in 
the Bladders of the Female Sex without any Incifion, as 
well thofe of a large, as thofe of a fmaller Magnitude. 
The- 
