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and making my Incifion pretty large, the upper parr, 
which proved a diftinft Stone, and had form'd it felf a 
Socket in thelowermoft, flipt out with little or no diffi- 
culty the other, which was forked, and was as it were 
bound in, as if it had adhered to the Vrethra, was re- 
mov'd with more trouble, and broke in the taking our, 
they being neither of them very hard. There was not 
an Ounce of Blood loft in the Operation ; the Stones 
having lodged long there, you muft imagine had made 
a very great Diftention of the Vrethra, fo that it was 
become fo callous, that I feem'd to cut through a Car- 
tilage ; The Stones being thus taken out^ I had nothing 
elfe to do but to Drefs up the Wound, which continues 
in a very good Condition, tho' we have to do witha, 
very fliattered and capricious Conftltution of Body. I 
had almoft forgot to tell you, that to facilitate my re- 
moval of that Stone which was locked in, I put two o£ 
my Fingers up his Fundament, to fecure it from retiring. 
• towards his Bladder and to my furprize I found, that 
one of the Angles of it had perforated into the Anusj 
which the Nurfe hearing me mention to the Dodlor, re* 
ply'd, that 'twas no wonder that in the Morning flie was 
not able to pafs up the Clyfter-pipe. 
Tmrs^ &c, 
i The Figure and pofition of the Stones defer ve your Notice,, 
A The Point which tended towards the Glans, 
B That part which lay in the Acetabulum, 
C The part upon which I made Incifion. 
D The Acetabulum. 
E The point which lay to'A>arM the Neck of the Bladder: , 
? That which had Perforated into the kwm^^ 
