( 14 ) , 
but recommend it to the skilful Ghirurgeon, as an Ope- 
ration fit for general u(e in thefe Cafes, being both ftfe 
and eafiiy Prafticable, and alfo of great Benefit and Re- 
lief to no lefs than the Moiety of Mankind, when ever 
they are afRiited with this painful Difeafe. And to fay 
truly, if Women in this cafe would but timely feek for 
help, they might with far lefs Danger and Pain be relie- 
ved of this torturing and lading Evil, than they are de- 
livered of a common Natural Birth. 
I fay timely feek for Help,- that is, before the Stone 
is grown to fo large a Magnitude, as not to admit this 
fort of Operation ; of which there may be fbme Inflan- 
ces, though I believe, as the attempting the Cure of 
fuch will be very dangerous, fo likewife they will be ve- 
ry rarely met with; tor Experience Juflifies what I have 
elfewhere obferved, (Numb. xoi. of xh^ Philofophical 
Tranfa^ions) that Women are not capable by Nature of 
breeding Stones in their Bladders of fo big a Size as Men 
frequently do; which is mod apparent from thofe ma- 
ny Hiftories of ftupendious large Stones (I mean them of 
the greateft Magnitude) Regiftred by both George and 
John Schenkiust Hildanus^ Greonevelt, the Fhilofophical 
Tranfailions, and other Authors ; all which that have hi- 
therto occur'd to me, have been only found in Men: 
Whereas the largeft 1 have heard of bred in a Womans 
Bladder, was not one fifth Part of what has been produ- 
ced of this kind in a Man's. 
In the Philofophical tranfaitions^ Numb. xii. there is 
inferted an Account of the largeft Stone I have yet heard 
of bred in a Man's Bladder : That mentioned by Mr. 
Wood the Chirurgeon, Numb. 209. of the fameTranC 
anions, taken out of a Woman, and as he thought, of a 
Prodigious Size, does not amount to near a Fifth Part of 
this : However, that is extraordinary in Mr. Wood'ii Re- 
lation, that though it was extracted by Section, and the 
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