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cimen of which appears in Plate I. Letter F, I crulhed 
the reft of the excrefcences, and placed the large 
canula. 
Experience has fhewn me, that this br idling of 
the fungus’s of the bladder is more painful and dan- 
gerous than polhbly is imagined. They are far from 
being of the fame nature with the polypus of the 
nofe, which is pull’d out with little or no pain, and 
without any bad confequence. The fungus’s of the 
bladder have more confidence, more folidity, and 
for that reafon more fenfibility. Accordingly, after 
this laft operation, the patient was feized with a vio- 
lent fever, which carried her off in two days. I 
open'd her body, and found the bladder in the con- 
dition reprefented by the figures, and their expla- 
nation. 
This obfervation made me think, that if I met 
with a parallel cafe, that is, a patient with fungous 
excrefcences in the bladder, diftinctly characterized, 
and accompanied with pains and excefiive haemor- 
rhages, which render the palliative cure ufelefs and 
unfuccefsful ; and if he had a confidtution and cou- 
rage proper to -make me hope for fuccefs from a great 
operation ; I would find a way to attack the excref- 
cences with a cutting inftrument, the operations of 
which are much furer and lefs painful than any 
other method. Practitioners advife to fuppurate fuch 
of thefe excrefcences, as the fingers cannot reach, 
that is, thofe which can neither be tied not cut. 
But how can one bring fuch lenfible parts to fup- 
puration ? we have no ointment that can raife a fup- 
puration in a found part. Fungus's are a fort of ve- 
getation, which, tho’ preternatural, are {till living, 
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