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ing now wholly removed, 'tis probable fte may recover 
it, and not be (ubjeCfc to this Weakneft as hereto- 
fore. 
The other Inftance is a Child fomething elder, about 
i o Years of Age, her Name Elizkfath Mortimer, who 
has been troubled with an Involuntary diftilling of 
her Urine, and other painful Symptoms ot the Stone for 
thefe three or four years paft ; but on Junexbs 1 1 th, 1 69 j. 
was happily relieved by the extraction of a large Stone 
near as big as a Pigeons Egg, after the fame manner and 
method as before defcrib'd, and with as good Succefe, 
though not altogether with as quick Expedition. 
From thefe Examples one may reafonabty conclude, 
That thofeof intermediate Years as well as Childhood 
and Old Age, are capable of undergoing this Operation: 
of Extraction of the Stone with Safety : And I make 
no great doubt to aflert, That 'tis the only proper and 
fecure way of freeing the Female Sex from the. Stone in 
the Bladder,- and that fuch ftiould never be perf waded to 
undergo the Se6tion upon any account, fince the Stone^ 
if it be not of an immoderate bignefs, may be extracted 
by dilating only the Neck of the Bladder ; and if it be 
of fb large a Bulk, (as I have reafbn to think it never,, 
ot* very rarely is in this Sex) as that it cannot be drawn 
©ut this way ; then the SeCtion, if the Chyrurgeon be fo 
bold as to venture on it, mult be made Co wide, as wholly 
to cut through the fliort Neck of the Bladder, and to di- 
vide likewife (bme part of its thin membranous Subftance, 
which is kno wn to be of the moft dangerous confequence 
in cutting the Stone, and to be avoided as certain Death 
to the Patient. 
I have added the Figures of the Three Stones I have 
here mention'd, all exprefs'd as big as the Life. That 
Mark Fig. 1. is the Stone fpontanertufly voided by the 
Old Woman. Fig* z. was taken out of the Child S\x 
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