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31» An Account of a Gentleman s being Cut f&r 
the Stone in the Kidney , mth a brief Enqni^ 
ry into the Antiquity and PraSiice of Ne-« 
phrotomy, 
NEphrotomy reftraining its Signification to Cutting in- 
the Kidney for the Stone, is an Operation which 
hath been hitherto (b little prafl:ifed,and always thought 
to be attended with (b muchiiifBculty and danger, that 
very few of tho(e Authors who have treated of the 
T>ifeafes of the Kidnyes, and particularly of the Stone 
there, have thought it worth their while to mention it ; 
and they who have, have done it generally to condemn 
it. Some indeed have imagined, that Hippocrates in 
his Book De Intern. JffeS. hath commanded the Ope< 
ration,- where, enumerating the Difeafes of the Kid- 
nies and their Cure, he hath thefe words, Quum au- 
tern tntumuerit ^ elevatus fuerit, fuh id tempm juxta 
renem fecato & extrailo pure^ arenamper urinam cientia^ 
fanato. Sienim feilus fuerity fug£ /pes e(l, fin minus ^ 
morhus homini comntoritur rtand Sinilaldus in particular, 
Antiph. Htppocr. 4. /, upon thefe words of Hippo* 
crates, who he tells us (as Macri>lius had done long 
before)^ tam fallere quam fdli fie/cit, is fo folicitous to 
have this unknown Praftice, as he calls it, Revived, 
that he paffionately exhorts the French and Roman Sur- 
geons to make the^Experiment upon Brutes, that they 
might with greater dexterity and readineft perform it 
upon Men ; but with Submiflion, he ftems to infer 
more from Hippocrates's words, then upon a due Ex- 
amination they will be found to bear, not confideriiig, 
as he ought, the Conditions which Hippocrates requires ; 
for to fay nothing of mjut^mv f(^m. toy fiygjv, juxta 
D d d renem 
