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cure him fome Eafe. Till then the Catheter had 
enter'd without any Obftacle 3 but this time, upon my 
pufhing it into the Bladder, I felt a Stone which ob« 
ftrufted its Paffage. I turn'd the Catheter to the Left, 
and hit upon one of the Branches of the Stone, which 
you have with this in a Print engrav'd by Order of the 
Marquis de Caumont , from the Stone itfelf, which I had 
fent him {See theYig. in theT a b .prefix d,~\ In order 
to know whether there was not another Stone, I 
drew the Catheter a little back, turning it to the Right, 
which was done without any Difficulty 5 and having 
puttied it in again, I met with another Branch of the 
fame Stone, which I took for a Stone different from 
the former, and concluded then, that I had found 
feveral Stones in the Patient's Bladder 3 and that if the 
bad Symptoms which appear'd, fhould continue any 
longer, there was no Probability of his recovering. 
Accordingly, the Hiccough coming upon him on the 
20th, and the other Symptoms not difcontinuing, he 
died on the 28th. The Stone was taken out four 
Hours after his Death, in the Prefence of M. Granet 
the Curate, M. Cafari a Burgher of this Town, and 
two of my Apprentices. 
The extraordinary Figure of this Stone will be of 
no great Ufe for practical Surgery 3 but it may fur- 
nifh Matter of much Reafoning for Philofophers, to 
know how it could be form'd in the Bladder, and yet 
not be troublefome to the Patient for fo long a Time 5 
what it may be that has given it fo particular a Figure, 
and fo regularly fhaped. For my own Part, I do not 
queftion but it was fufpended in the Bladder of the 
Patient, where it might be framed by the Urine 3 the 
dried membraneous Filaments, which are ftill per- 
ceived 
