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made compact and cover’d with linen-cloth. Twd 
llraps tied to the ends of this board were palled into 
the bars of the turn’d-up chair, which fupported the 
patient’s body : and thefe pieces, to wit, the chair 
and the board with the culhion were fallen ed toge- 
ther by buckles that were on the llraps. The af- 
fiftants, who were on each liae of the patient, had 
each a drong large fwathing band folded double, and 
pafs’d into this fold in a Hip-knot : at prefent i ufe 
one of thofe drong woollen ladies or girdles, with 
which couriers bind or fwathe their body. This 
Hip-knot was palled on the patient’s wrids, who 
had feen nothing of thefe preparations, and die was 
bound fad, almod before Ihe was aware of it. 
Then I introduced a common grooved dad', fuch as 
is ufed for abl'cedes of the bladder : I turn’d the 
groove towards the patient’s left thigh, and on this 
groove I pufh d my knife into the bladder ; which 
knife is the fame that I dili ufe for women, but 
made a little narrower. On that knife, which had 
a groove, I did the gorget and forceps in the ufual 
manner. 
I fcarched for the done, but in vain, I found no- 
thing but excrefcences, one of which was condder- 
bly hard : I extracted feveral cinders of them with 
the forceps. Yet Hill I was not very certain, but 
that there might be a done behind a rampart of ex- 
crefcences which I felt ; and I had not brought the 
crooked forceps with me to fearch behind this in- 
trenchment. When I judged that the patient was 
fatigued by my fearchings, and the extirpations 
which I made with the forceps ; I had her put to 
bed, after having put a canula into the wuund, 
contrary 
