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manner of Seftion: and that the Child fliould recover 
fb as to be perfeftly \veJl, witlhout the kaft ill Accident 
fucceeding the Operation. But we may gather hence, 
of what vaft Extention this Urinary Pallage, though 
Naturally ftrait, is capable and how much ftill wider 
it may be dilated, where 'tis proportionably larger, I 
mean of thofe of this Sex of Riper Years, or grownup 
to Womens Eftate; who may yet more eafily and fafely 
be relieved after this fame manner, even of Stones ot a 
much larger Size than this we here fpeak of- * 
The French^ a Nation certainly very fubjeft to the 
Stone in the Bladder, and whofe Chirurgeons therefore, 
muft of neccffity be very converfant with this Diftafe, 
and expert in the Operations requifite for the Cure of it, 
have, I fee, lately eftablilhed this fort of Praftice ; tho' 
I muft needs own I did not know fo much, till I had 
perufed a very ufeful Book of Chirurgery, Publilhed but 
this laft Year, 1696. at Paris, in %vo. by Monfieur//(r 
la FauguioH ; Entituled, Traiti Compkt des Operations 
de Chirurgie : where I find in his Thirteenth Chapter, 
that treats of the Stone in the Bladder, and delcribes the 
way of Extrafting it out of Women ; he has thele 
" Words: On dilate Wretre avec le Dilatateur fans 
rien couper , 'Ion tire la pierre avec m crochet 
Ok lien avec deTenettes. And a little after; UV- 
ret re de Fenmes fe dilate extraordinairement j ainji 
il arrive rarewent juon foit ollige de leur faire une 
Incifion. 
Theft Quotations may ftiew, how that right Reafon- 
ing, together with due Experience, have not only fug- 
gcfted, but likewife approved and fettled this way of 
£xtraffing the Stone out of the Bladder of Women with- 
mt SeSion. When I was a Stranger to this Pra<aice, I 
did only then propofe it to be well confidered of by the 
Judicious but now that it proves fo fuccesful, I cannot 
C but 
