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jerk, I touch’d a hard body, the dull percuffion of 
which convey d nothing but obfcurity to my hand or 
judgment. In order to come at the knowledge of 
this body, I palled the crooked found deftined for 
men, the bent of which I thought fitter to favour 
my inquiries. I found the fame body again, but 
ftill with the fame obfcurity. I had ex f ra6ted hones, 
which did not afford plainer marks of their exiftence ; 
wherefore I judged, that there might be a hone and 
fungous excrefcences too in this bladder ; and that 
thefe excrefcences were the obhacles that render’d 
our fearch difficult, and the hone doubtful. But the 
dull refihance which this hard body made, inclined 
me to think, that it might as well be l'ome fcirrhous 
tumour. Thefe doubts held us a long time in fuf- 
penfe what party to take : but the extreme paia 
which the patient fuffer'd, and the frequent haemor- 
rhages, which muh loon put an end to her life, made 
us determine to perform the operation j that is, to 
open the neck of the bladder, either to extract the 
ffone, if any, or remove and treat the fungus’s, 
which exifted beyond all doubt. 
I cut this widow the 18 of October 1735, by 
what I call the rural apparatus , that is, without 
placing her upon the table ufed in our hofpitals, 
which could not well be carried to the country 
where this woman dwelt. 
I placed her on the edge of her bed : a chair turn’d 
upfide down fupported her fhoulders. Unknown to 
the patient I caufed a board to be put under the 
firft mat era I s of this edge of the bed : and when ffie 
was placed on it, under her backfide, or the os facrum , 
I laid another board,, on which I put a flraw cufhion 
made 
