C ho) 
But to detain you no longer with a DigreflTion, be 
pleafed to receive the Hiftory as I had it frcm Mr. Hob* 
fin hitnfelf, who was the Perfon upon whona the Expe- 
riment was made, and for any thing that falls within 
my Knowledge. The Firft, 
This Gentleman, who wasConful for the Englijh at 
Venice^ having been long affliifted with the Stone in the 
Kidney, wasat length attacked with a Fit of that Dura- 
tion and Violence, that it reduced him almoft to De- 
iperaiion; and finding no Relief from any means that 
had been uled, he determined to apply hiralelf to Do- 
mnkus dt Manhettis^ who, as Ch, Fatin in his Lyceum 
Patavinum tells us, was Prmarius pratliae Extraordi- 
narisfrof^Jfor 2Lt Padua, a Fam'd and Experitnc'd Pra- 
ctitioner there, the Son of Peter^ both well known to 
the Learned part of their Profeflion. To this Perfon 
Mx. Hohfiny under the greateft Extremity of Painima- 
.ginable, addreffed bimfelf, imploring of him, that ha- 
ving made ufe of all conceivable means, and the beft ad- 
vice that was to be had in Fenice, Vv'itbout Succeft, he 
*would be pleafed to cut the Stone out of his Kidney , 
being fixt in his belief that no other Mei hod remained 
capable of Relieving him ; adding that he was not in- 
fenfible of the Danger ; but that Death it felf was infi- 
nitely more eligible, thari a Life in that Mifery, un- 
der which he had long and did then Groan. Marchetti 
feemed very defirous to have declined it, reprefenting 
not only the extreme hazard, but as he feared the im- 
~ pradicableneft of the Operation, that 'twas what he 
had never attempted , and that to proceed to it, was 
in efl^e<a to deftroy him: But Mr. Hohfin ^^tCx^' 
ing that if he refufed it, he would never defift till he 
found out one who would do it. Marchetti was at 
length, by his Refolution and Importunity prevailed 
upon 
