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Methods: This Detail I have referved for a more 
complete Work than this Paper: At prefenr, I only 
feck to leffen the Inconveniences of the general Way 
of Cutting by opening the Body of the Bladder; or, 
rather, I endeavour to improve it ; and I am humbly of 
Opinion, that thelnftrument which I have the Honour 
to lay before the Society , may contribute to this End. 
R e m a R k s on the Operation of Cutting for the 
HATEVER Improvements have been made in 
the'diffe rent Methods of Cutting for the Stone 
by the low Apparatus , there Hill remains in them 
feveral Inconveniences, to which the high Operation 
is not fubjeft. Thefe Advantages of the high Ope- 
ration above all the other Ways, have been learnedly 
treated of by celebrated Authors French and Englijk y 
and have not been contradi&ed by any one ; fo that 
it would feem as if this Operation had been aban- 
doned, in order to run after the lateral Operation, 
pretty much as People quit an old Fafhion for a new 
one. This being a fhameful Circumftance in an Art 
of fuch Importance as Surgery is, and with refped to 
fo ferious an Operation as that of Cutting, it was at 
length faid, in Juftification of this Change, That the 
high Operation is not fo general a Method as the low ; 
Stone, 
Article III. 
On the Method of Cutting by the high Operation. 
That 
