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be too wide and diredh The defcription of its parts, 
which is in the explanation of the figures, fuffices 
to (hew its ufe. 
I return’d to the patient the next day ; and found 
her in a fever, with many colicky pains : but at 
the end of the third day there was nothing extra- 
ordinary. 
I intended to make another fearch, but I feared 
renewing tbofe accidents : wherefore I contented my- 
lelf with injecting a liquid digeftive; and deferr’d 
any farther trials till after the l'uppuration was well 
formed, which I expedted about the 8th or 9th day. 
I re-vifited the patient on the 7th, and found her 
a little feverifh, but die had a good night’s reft. 
There was a fmall difcharge thro’ the canula of tole- 
rably white pus, but of an intolerable fmell. The 
canula feem d to us to be much clogg’d with (lough? ; 
and the ftench made us fufpedt a colledtion and 
lodgment of thefe (loughs behind the canula. We 
refolved to put in the canula above deferibed; and 
as there was a neceftity of dil ting, in order to intro- 
•duce it } we agreed to take the advantage of this di- 
latation, to try to difeover by the crooked forceps, 
which I had brought with me, if there might not 
be a ftone to be extradted, or at lead fome more of 
thefe excrefcences, and to break or bruife l'.ch as 
we (hou Id not be able to draw, that they may fall 
off by fuppuration. 
I executed this trial on the 8th day. The dilata- 
tion was made between tw'o grooved founds, as it is 
done in the greater apparatus between the male and 
female condudtors. I found no ftone as yet, but 
brought away clufters of the tops of fungus’s a fpe- 
cimen 
