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VI. A Letter from Mr. Charles Bernard, gt* 
qjing an Account of Two large Stones^ were 
for twenty Years pafl Lodg'd in the Meatus 
Urinarius, and thence cut out by him the 2hth 
of September lafl. 
I Am neither to deny nor defer giving you the Hifto- 
ry of thole Stones which I lately cut out of the 
Vrethra of a Gentleman, who had born them there ma- 
ny yearSj without knowing what his Diflremper was.. 
And however averfe I may be from an Attempt of this 
kind, either from the natural Lazineft of my temper, 
or the fence of my own Inability yet I take this to be 
a cafe furprifing and unufual, that the Publick feems to 
exaft it from me, altho' I did not ftandengag'd to you 
by my promife for the Performance. 
A cafe fo very rare and extraordinary, that (with 
all its circumftances confidered) I fliall not fear to pro- 
nounce it the fingleinftance of the kind; my own Expe- 
rience, I confeTs, is too narrow for me to pretend to have 
met with the like : And fure T am, that among the few 
Books of which I am poffefs'd, and w^ith which I have 
been converfant, I cannot find any example which holds 
any proportion with this ; to have a Stone Jodg'd in the 
Meatus Vrinarius^ and to be thence cut our, is no un- 
common Accident, but is what, at one time or other, 
occurs in the Praftice of mod Men ; but to have Stones 
of fuch a Magnitude, manifeftly lodg'd in this part for 
near Twenty Years together, and the Difeafe never dif- 
covered, and no realbnable attempts made towards the 
Relief Oi the Patient, to thofe who have the Story on- 
ly upon the Authority of the Relator, will feem alroge^ 
ther incredible. 
