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One of my boarders preparing to perform the ope- 
ration of cutting on the dead body of Michael Vaflal, 
a batchelor, aged 45, the found could not pafs the 
pupil forced, and made a falfe pafiage. 
I open’d this canal, and found, 
1 ft. That a fimple fmall ftile could not pafs into 
the urethra, by pudiing it from the glans towards 
the proftate ; but that it palled, by pufhing it from 
the proftate towards the glans. 
2dly. A little before the place, where the bulb be- 
comes lefs thick, and begins to furround the urethra, 
that is, about a large finger’s breadth from its begin- 
ning, there was a ftridture intirely like that, which 
Dr. Willis difcovered in the upper longitudinal finus of 
the dura mater. 
3dly. Some few lines lower down was a caruncle, 
or a flefhy firm bump, of the fize of a pea ; and 
below this bump, the urethra was extremely ftreight- 
ened. < 
4thly. The balls of this carnofity formed a kind of 
valve, and there I found the falfe palfage, that went 
into the fubftance of the bulb, 
I have the honour to be, 
S I R, 
Your moll humble, and 
moll obedient fervant, 
Le Cat. 
