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I, A Letter from Mr. Wm. Fidge, Surgeon , 
at Portfmouth, to Cromwell Mortimer, 
M. D. Secret. R. S. concerning a Stone 
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taken out of the Bladder of a Dog ; which 
being cut a] under had a ‘Piece o/Dog-Grafs 
in its Center. 
SIR, 
’^/^Ccording to your Directions 
Read at a Meeting of the 
Royal Society, Jan. 8. * _ , - 
,746-7. L jL I have lent an Account of 
the Stone I left with you ; It is now fourteen 
Years fince I took it out of the Bladder of a very 
large MaftifF, about five Years old, belonging to the 
Porter of his Majefty’s Dock-Yard at Portfmouth . 
The Dog died in about three Days after receiving a 
Kick from fome one endeavouring to part him from 
another MaftifF he was fighting with. 
Being then an Apprentice to the Surgeon of the 
Yard, and hearing the Dog was dead, I lent the La- 
bourer, who attended the Surgery, to get him for 
me, in order to diffeft. 
When I had open'd the Abdomen y I found it fill'd 
with bloody Urine; and having before heard that his 
Death was fuppos'd to be occafion'd by the Kick, I im- 
mediately thought the Bladder muft be the 'Pact hurt ; 
which, when I had cleanfcd the Abdomen, , I exa- 
mined, and found this large Stone, with the Bladder 
contrafted dole to it on every Side, and rent at the 
Bottom about three Quarters of an Inch ; fo that 
what Urine came to the Bladder was dife barg'd 
U ti into 
