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ing of the 'Pel-vis : In the fecond, the Stone is taken 
out thro’ the lower Opening of the fame Pelvis. 
The low Apparatus [or Way] may be iikewife di- 
vided into direB and lateral. The direB is th z greater 
Apparatus [or Cutting on the Staff] : The lateral is 
of four Sorts. 
The lateral Apparatus of the firft Sort is that 
which is done without the Staff [or Catheter ], 
and wherein the Operator has no other Guide but 
the Stone itfelf, which is puflied forward, as much 
as poflible, towards the Perineum. This is called 
the le[fer Apparatus [or Cutting on the Gripe], 
which Celfus has deferibed. It is the oldeft of all 
the Ways of Cutting, and may be look’d on as the 
Source of all the other Sorts of the lateral Operation. 
The fecond Sort of lateral Apparatus is that 
wherein the Operator makes ufe of a grooved Staff, 
on which he cuts the [inner] End of the Ure- 
thra lengthways, and makes laterally on the Infide 
of the Proftate, and on the Neck of the Bladder, 
an Incifion about two Lines deep, or a Sort of 
laying open, which only makes way for the Dila- 
tation or Laceration. This is the Method of Cutting 
which I ufe, after having had it from Mr. Morand 7 
who learned it of Mr. Chefelden. And it is to this 
I have endeavoured to give the Improvements which 
are already known in the World, and which I intend 
fpeedily to publifh. In my Opinion, one may rank 
in the fame Clafs the Method whereby Monfteur de 
la Peyronie lays open laterally the Neck of the Blad- 
der , with Inflruments differing but little from thofe 
of the greater Apparatus. [For] this Method, as ic 
has been communicated to me by that great Sur- 
geon, fcarcely differs from ours but in the Inftru- 
rnents. The 
