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for the Benefit of Mankind, obtained leave of the King 
that they might open hioi alive, and infped the parrs 
affeded ; which having done, and placing them all 
right again, they Hitched him up, and the Man furvi- 
ytdy but no Account where they opened him, what 
parts were Difeafed, or what they obferved. But from 
Fare/s Relation, moil certain it isj if there be any cer- 
tainty in the Story at all, that they did not cot into 
the Body of tlie Kidney. But when Parej inftrted in- 
to the Margin, Super at h(Bc narratio non modo omnem ad- 
miratiohem fed ^ fidem, he might as well have added, 
© leSlhne vix digna. But notwithftanding Roffet's 
Zeal to bring this Operation into ufe ; and tho' he urges 
Hippocrates's Authority to juftifie the cutting into the 
Kidney^ he is yet fo ingenuous as to acknowledge Pr^- 
fente tumor nec aliter^ Hippocratenfi imperaffe fedio-^ 
nem. And as plaufible as his Reafoaing may ftem, it 
does not appear, that he hath been able to gain many 
Profelytes to his Opinion ; the ftnce of thofe Authors 
whoiiave mentioned it (who are not many neither} be» 
ing generally againft it, and concluding in effed with 
Riolm. Ench. Anat. /.2. c. 28. Nifi natura monjlrante 
uiam atque pr^eunte , nefas eft tent are nephrotomiam; 
tho' in his youoger and more daring years, be Teems of 
a quite different Opinion, when in another place with- 
out thofe Reftridioas he pronounces, Renes vulnerari 
W incldi pojfe, indkmrn eft nephrotomiam fecure admini- 
Jirari pojje. Akho' it appears to be the concurrent Opi- 
nion of thofe Authors who have treated of Wounds in 
the Ridnyes, that if they penetrate the f elvis they ter- 
minate in Doath,yet if th^y had lived to have beheld the 
Experiment which 1 am about to relate, performed by 
fo great" a Man with fo good fuccefs, they would, no 
doubt, have made their Rrognoftic with more caution 
and refer ve^ and not fo Magifterially have exgiod^d the 
Operation. But 
