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thing befidcs the Purity of his Stile) is filent In the mttr 
ter, altho' he be fo particular and accurate in his Dif- 
courfe of cutting for the Stone in the Bladder. And Ga* 
kn hinrifelf , whofe way is to fay all he can upon his 
Subjed, and is copious enough uj;>pn Dileafes of the Kid- 
nyes, efpecially the Stone, nientions it not ; which, had 
it been in ufe in his Days, or perhaps belbre him, would 
hardly, have efcaped him. CWiJ». indeed, De libr. 
propn.p. 149. ed, Lugd. miftaking Hippocrates with 
the reft, reckons it inter deperdita^ and is pleafed (with 
his ufual rudenefs) among other Operations, to attri* 
bute the lof^ of this to Galeny and for no other reafon, 
but becaufe^ he oniitted to.menticn it. But,this frotn a 
Perfon whofe Candor and Judgment are not always 
without except:ion , without better Arguments, is of 
little import ; efpecially if we remember how pleafed 
(eems, with, every advantage which he fancies 
hg ha^h ov^r him i how frequent he is in expo^ 
fing him, and with what contempt he often ufes him, 
not coxifidering how very open himfelf lyes in almoft 
all his own voluminous Writings : And yet this fur- 
wij^ZQ of Cardans, (or whoever elfe dreamed before him) 
was Authority fufficient to an Author as fantaftical as 
he, Dr. Aferic. C^y2w^(?« in his Cenfure of the Royals 
Soaefyj to reproach the memory of Galefi, and with 
juft as much reafon and equity. But if his Silence be- 
all the reafon they have (and there is no other imagipa-. 
ble) then are Celfus and Ruffuiy, who preceded him, and* 
An^tcu4yrwho was at leafl his Contemporary, eqyally. 
tQ be blamed, But indeed there areiio footfteps that I 
canDifcover among any pf the Greek or Latin Phyficians^ 
Ibme of which being very fallupon ailNephritic Gales.can-'v 
not be fiippofed univerfally to have omitted fo important 
arPra^ige, hadjt been iq ufe among them: ..Tho' an- 
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