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renem fecarefl.s bimCd(,M€rcuriatis,FoeJjia,md others have 
rendrcd it,or ad Regionem rents, ^sf.Marihus • who, if I 
mifiake not, is the fmgle Perlcn that hath exprcfly 
Commented upon this Book of Hippocrates, butdedu- 
*ces no fuch Pradice from thefe words) but admitting 
it in as large a fence as he will, and that Hippocrates 
did intend (as I fuppofe he did) that we ftiould cut in 
renem as Fr. Roffetus Tranflates it ; yet I fay , if 
he had confidered the Conditions which Hippocrates\ 
requires to precede the Operation,there would be no fuch 
occafion to Pradice upon other Animals, to render a 
Man dextrous when a(3:ing (according to Hippocrates 
Diredions) upon Humane Bodies; tor 'tis not fuffi- 
cient that we take our Indicatiqis only from the com- 
mon Symptoms of the Stone^^BI they never fo grie- 
vous and never (b evident ; but there muft be an Apo- 
ftem too, l\O\.0i>v TO irv@^^ fays he, and that is to mani- 
feft it felf externally by a Tumor Im-mv Si ^^^h^m 
)y i^ct^Q/l, And then indeed, the neceffity and reafon 
of tlie Operation are fo obvious, and the Difficulty Co 
little , that no Man ought to decline it. I quarrel 
not with Sinihaldus^ or the reft, for propofing this or 
any other Operation, whereby the Art of Healing may 
be advanced, or the Miferies of Mankind relieved 5 
but for perverting this paffage of Hippocrates , and 
abufing his Authority to Countenance a Pradice which 
I am confident Hippocrates knew not, and in this 
place, nor, for any thing that appears in any other, 
neither adviftd nor intended. Of Apoftems in the Kid- 
iiiesj-occafioned by an Inflammation (for from an Inflam- 
mation to an Abfcefs, the tranfition iseafie) and from 
other Caufes exclufwe of the Stone, and of Matter 
difcharged thence by opening, examples are (b frequent, 
that there is nothing wonderful in that Cale ; and a- 
ny Man who hath mi&d, or is furprized at an Inftance 
of 
