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The Paflage in the Back of the Terns, made by 
the Urine before the Operation, heal’d up kindly. 
He has fince been much rejoiced, that the Incifion 
could not be healed, becaufe he has lately voided 
fcveral large Stones that Way ; which he mod pro- 
bably muft have been cut for again, had that been 
clofed. 
For fevcral Years his Urine did not drop, but by 
the Introdu&ion of a knitting Needle, or fuch-like 
Inftrument, which would move the Stone: And this 
Operation generally took up two Hours every Morn- 
ing. 
You will fee eafily which Way the Stone lay in 
the Tents , by obferving fome Holes therein, which 
the Patient had made with the knitting Needle, hoping 
to pufh through it in time. Thefe Holes are in the 
Fore Part, or againft the natural Orifice. The other 
End you will find quite polifhed, by the Fri&ion of 
the fmall Stones againft it. The fuperior Part is like 
the Gians Tents: If you place the Stone upon a 
Table, and obferve it at a fmall Diftance, it feems 
not unlike a Gians cut off, only larger. 
I fhall give you no further Trouble upon this Ac- 
count; but fhall only mention, that, a Fortnight after 
the Operation, his Wife was deliver'd of a third Child. 
She has the Character of a very virtuous Woman; 
but how the femen in coitu could pafs by this Stone, 
when the Urine could not, but with fuch Difficulty, 
I do not pretend to determine. 
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