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rynx and the Fibres common to it, and the Top of 
the Gullet. 
Notwithftanding repeated Bloodings, Bliftering be- 
twixt his Shoulders, Cupping, c, whereof it is 
needlefs to give you a particular Detail, the Difeafe 
continued fo obftinate, and the Patient fo like to fuf- 
focate, that next Day in the Afternoon his Friends, 
although very averfe in the Morning, when I firfl pro- 
pofed the piercing the Windpipe, at length earneftly 
defired that the Operation might be performed^ and 
the poor Lad bad us try any Experiment to preferve 
his Life. He had good Reafon fo to do, for indeed, in 
all Probability, in a few Hours he would have been 
ftrangled to Death moft miferably, conjfante mente^. 
mtegrtfque fenfihus^ as the elegant Fernelms^ f Pat ho- 
log. V. 9.y> exprefleth it. Whence you fee it was not 
out of an itching Defire of making Experiments, or a 
wanton Officioufnefs, that we diredly fet about the 
Operation. Which was done with fuch Succefs, that 
in lefs than four Days, his Breathing being perfectly 
eafy, and his Deglutifionfbeing almoft fo, we removed 
the Ctinmday and left the Glottis to db its own Office. 
According to Coitus jiiif eVtanus ( jicut* iii. 4 ?^ 
the Author of the Ltber Introdii^orius (cap. 13 .) af- 
cribed to Galen, Bronchotomy was propofed by Jf- 
cleptades (however inconfihent with his Delicacy, and*^ 
the reft of his Charader, the feeming Harfhnefs of this 
Operation may appear) and is deferibed and earneftly 
recommended by almoft all the fyftematical Writers of 
Surgery from Paiilus o^jEginalde reMedk.xu 33-) 
and, as he fays, Jntyllus, and fome other of the beft 
Surgeons ‘before- him, down to the prefent Times. But 
when they are at fo much Pains to defend the Reafon- 
ablenefs- 
