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with a Liquor, which in Scent and Colour refembled 
the true Urine : infomuch, that upon ftridily examining 
the Linnen ftain’d by what iffu’d from hence, wirh that 
from the Pudenda , we cou’d perceive no fenfible diffe- 
rence, and concluded there was a Communication be- 
tween the left Kidney and the Orifice, into which the 
Surgeon’s Probe pals'd obliquely upwards, about an 
Inch. Of the fame opinion was Dr. Pellet, then pre- 
fent. Whether the fame Similitude may hold, betwixt 
the Urine and this Liquor, in all Cafes of the I ke Na- 
ture, I have not had opportunites to obferve.* but as 
Mr. Rurfcb has taken no notice of it, in fuch a Number 
of Subjects, that have been before him, l am apt to think, 
that it does not * being eafily perfuaded, that if it did, 
it would not fo often have efcap’d his inquifitive Re- 
fearches. I cou’d have wi fil’d however, that this Fluid 
had been fav’d ; to have try’d by Experiments, in what 
other Qualities, befides the Scent and Colour, it might 
correfpond with the Urine; which wou’d have given 
us a farther lnfight into the Caufe of this Affinity be- 
tween them, in the particular inftance now before us. 
Upon opening the Body, where were prefent Dr. 
Pellet, and Mr. Stephens an ingenious Surgeon, the 
Kidneys, contrary to Expe&ation, were perfeff, and did 
not any way communicate with the outward Orifice. 
But upon clearing away the Fungous Subffance, 
which took up all the Sulcus or Hollow of the Spine , we 
found where the Perforation tended; a long Probe eafily 
paffing up the Channel, which contains the Medulla 
Spinalis. Throughout this Fungus were difpers’d a 
great many endings of fmall Nerves, from whence di- 
ftill’d this, as it were, Urinous Liquor, which occafion’d 
the Tumour .* the reft of the Medulla was more compadl, 
and fill’d the Cavity of the Spine ; tho’ in fomeSubje&s 
it has been waded to fuch a Degree, that by blowing 
P s* into 
