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to perform it. Neither does his SuccefTor in the Pro- 
feffion of Surgery, and his Rival in Anatomy, Julius 
Cajj'erius of Tlacentia {T>e Voc, Org, i. 20.) pretend 
to have done it ; though he has endeavoured to illu- 
ftrate the Operation by fome very neat Figures ; which 
you will not readily fufped to be from any but dead 
bodies. And next to him M, Aurelius Severinus 
{Chirurgy Effic. ii.40.) who was a very judicious and 
learned Man, and the beft and boldeft Surgeon of his 
Time; though he recommends it with a great deal of 
Warmth and Keennefs, yet it feems, even in his latter 
Days, he never had Occafion to try it : So that the firft 
undoubted and diflindly recorded Hiftory I can find of 
this Operation being adually pradifed, is in the learned 
Anton. Mufa Brafavolus {Com. in HifBocr. deDicet. 
inacutdw.iS') who performed it in adefperateSquinance, 
when the Surgeon refufed to do it ^ and repeated it a- 
gain in the like Cafe. Mr. Arnaud the Frenchman 
did it ^ but his Patient died (See Garengeot OBerat. 
Chirurg. xxxi. p. 489.) However, his Countryman 
Mr. Binard had better Succefs {Garengeot /Z^/W.xxxii. 
p. 498.) Dr. Freind(HiJi~ p. 206.) cites SP«r- 
man doing it; and {p* 2,07.) tells us of another Cafe 
communicated to him by a Surgeon whom he does 
not name. And befides thefe, I believe there are but 
few Inftaryes can be produced, of any who really per- 
formed the Operation on a living Perfon. I hear now 
that Mr. Baxter., a Surgeon in Coupar of Fife, not 
far from us, and Dr. Oliphant in Gask in Ferthjbire, 
did it with very good Succefs within thefe few i'ears. 
In the adual Performance of the Operation they cer- 
tainly did, or might have obferved fome things omitted 
by Authors, and even fome not perfedly agreeing with 
the common Accounts that are given of it. I think it 
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