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the lateral Apparatus , which is the common Methods 
At 5 o’ Clock in the Morning the Patient was placed 
in the ufual Manner for the Operation } and I, en- 
deavouring to enter the Probe,, in order to cut him 
laterally, found the Stone fo big, or at leaft fo far 
advanced in the Neck of the Bladder, that I had all 
the Trouble in the World to make the Ihftrument 
enter $ nor could I effect it, otherwifc than by thruft- 
ing it quite on the Side. I put my Finger into the 
Anus , and was convinced of the Reality of the Cir- 
cumftances which the Probe had made appear: I 
immediately thought that the Situation of this Stone 
in the Neck of the Bladder would hinder me from 
bringing the Inftruments freely to it $ that, as this 
hard Body Teem’d exactly to fill the Bladder, , it would 
be irrpoffible to introduce a Pair of Pincers between 
it and the Inftdes of the Bladder 5 that, its Bulk 
being too confiderable, would caufe a mortal Lacera- 
tion by the low Apparatus 5 and, laftly, that the Pa- 
tient was in fuch a Cafe of Neceflity, as required 
to have recourfe to the high Apparatus. 
Not having fufpected all thefe particular Circum- 
fiances, and not being much inclined to make an 
Operation in Town, which I had as yet made but 
once, I had not brought my Inftruments with me 
for cutting by the high Apparatus > but, feeing it 
would be a Rafhnefs in this Cafe, to perform the lateral 
Operation, and not to prefer the high Apparatus 
to it, contrary to all my Experiments and Principles, 
I put off the Operation to the next Day, and fent to 
Rouen for my Inftruments for cutting by the high 
Apparatus. 
That 
