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III. La Lettre de Charles Drelincourt a M. 
Porree^ fur la MethoJe , pretenduc Nouvdle^ 
Je tailkr la pierre : Avec trops autres a Mon- 
fieur Vallot , Premier Medicin de fa Maje^ie. 
A Leide, 1674.^ 12^ 
THESE Letters were wriiten by the Learned Au- 
thor, upon the OGcafion of a New Liihotomift in 
Frame ^ pretending to cut all forts and fexes of Mankind 
of the Stonein the Bladder, how big foever, without any 
confiderable Medical preparatives 5 which, as to Men ^ 
he would perform by introducing into the anus feme 
fingers of his right hand , well oyled , and thereby find- 
ing the Stone immediately, and thrufting it into the 
neck of the bladder , w^here it is to be held fall by an Af- 
fiftant; and thereupon having withdrawn his right-hand- 
fingers, he would place his Patient in aduepofture, and 
then oyl fome fingers of his Jeft hand, and Aide them in- 
to the fame place, turning the neck of the bladder, toge- 
ther with the ftone, towards ih^i'imlWtit trochanter^ till 
with his right hand he could draw the skin of the feri- 
neum towards the right femur ^ where 'tis to be held with 
his left rhumb , and then wirh a fit fingle Inftrumcnt he 
would make a Semi-lunar incifion , and fo without any 
other myftery, ashefpeaks^ draw out cheftone, and then 
apply healing Medicines. 
^%toWomen , he would perforin the operation adigenh 
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