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Of this Operation Monfieur 'Drelim^uH obrerve ii $ 
Ftrft^ That 'tis, an Invention as old as tV/^C^/j h mftir, 
who lived about i ^oo years fince, 'Secondly^ ihac .r r-^-^ 
notbeufed upon adulc perfons, efptcialy when rhcy are 
very cofpu'ent and fat, and che uone big and cicfciy 
adhering; fince it app^arij nor, . how in fuch fi.bjeds ihe 
Operator^ that wili uftr this incihod,. can rtacl> rhcbo'touv 
of the Bladder. Ihirily^ that 't:s very doubtfu], whether 
the Bladder can be thus thrull and lurned at"p;eafj;e, 2S 
he pretends; and that it cannoc but exceeding y rorture 
the Patient , to make fuch conipreffions , as rnuPi needs 
be made^ both to rhruft down the Stone, and to force d e 
whole Bladder to defcend to prineum. ^ kx\'^ foiiYthr 
ty^ it feenis to our Auihor very fufpicious, that this 
perator puts his fingers into the fundamenr , before he 
places his Patient in a due pofluretocut hini. For, faith 
Monfieur if the Operation requires it, why 
doth he not do this to all his Patients, (at leaft for a 
fliew) but only to thofe, which he hath cue, as 'twere, 
playing, of which He affirms and proves that ihey have 
been cheated by him. 'Fifthly^ notice is here taken, that 
this Operator difpatches fome in two or three mir utes , 
but others he holds above thirty Minutes; and our Au- 
thor can give bimfelf no other reafon for it, but that he 
deceives tho^e ^ and cuts the^e^ Sixthly ^ he nites , ihat 
this pretended Artift maketh in fome but very flight and 
fuperficial compreffions, and that very few of his Pati- 
ents make water at the wound, even not at the momeac 
of the Operation. What other caufe can there be, than 
that thofe who urine are really cut , and thofe that do 
not urine , receive but a meer incifion-* Seuenthlj , he 
obferves, that thofe that are cured of their Incifionm five 
orfixdayes, whom he proves to have been deceived, are 
free from all the ordinary fymptomsof this cutting, but 
remain fubjeft to the fame dy[urU^ and make as thick 
and fetid an urine as before : Whereas in others, whom he 
cuts indeed^ the cicatrice is |ong a forming, and is pre- 
ceded 
