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upon thofe things which wary and more jadicious Men 
avoid. But, notwithftanding Avken's words, that it was 
very rarely, if at all, pracJliled among the Arahiatis them- 
felves , I think a Man may very reafonably infer, 
from the general Silence of all the red ot their 
Writers. 
r Am.ong the Moderns, as well as I can inform my felf, 
Fr, Rofetus Vthr. de partu Cafareo feems to have been 
the firlt ; who,, to make that Operation, for the fake 
of which he wrote his Book, obtdn, by relating others 
which were Analogous, began ferioufly to advife tlie 
Pradice tho, after all his endeavours, he is not able 
to produce one Inflance, either of his own or other 
Mens Experience, where they were not firft invited 
and diredied by a vifible preceding Tumour. He feems 
either not to have met with, or not to have believed 
that extraordinary Cafe in Cceliiu Rhodigtnus var, Uil. 
L 3. C. IX. of a Woman, who having for a good while 
been ajfflided with a load and pain in the Region of her 
Kidnyes ; fcratched with that rage and impatience fo 
long with her Nails, till (he made a Wound fo large 
and deep, as to difcharge eighteen Stones tnagnitudine 
quanta in tefferis vtfitur. And very juftly does he rejed 
that Account in Parey^ L 24. c, 19. as a Story whofe 
authority was remote and fufpicious, and the manner 
of the Relation altogether uninftruflive. For tho' Me- 
zeray in his Hiftory takes upon him to tell us that the 
Kidney was opened, yet all that can be learned from 
Parey; who Tranftribed it from the fame Author, from 
whom wiihout doubt, Mezeray took it, (viz. Enguer' 
rand de Monjirekt dans fes chroniques depuis tan 1400. 
jufquss en Tan i^6j. Printed at 1572.) amounts 
to no more than this, that there being a Criminal, who 
had been long fubjeft to Calculous Pains, condemned to 
Dyej, the Pbyfician^, upon pretence that it would be 
for 
