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IX. An Account of a Hernia of the Uri- 
nary Bladder including a Stone: By Mr, 
Percival Pott, Surgeon to St. Bartholo- 
mew’s Hofpital , and F. R. S. 
Read Feb. 16, A Healthy boy, about fix years old, 
I/6 4- was fuddenly feized with a moft 
acute pain, at the bottom of his belly; during- 
the time the. pain lafted he could not difcharge 
a drop of urine, tho’ he frequently endeavoured. 
After about an hour and half, he became perfectly _ 
eafy on a fudden, and pifted very freely. 
A few days after this, a fmall tumor, about the 
fize of a large pea, was diicovered; in the upper part 
of the fpermatic procefs, juft below the groin. As this 
tumor was perfectly indolent, and gave the child no 
kind of uneafinefs, no notice was taken of it. By- 
fiow degrees it defcended lower and lower; and as 
it- defcended it feemed to increafe in fize : the boy 
was cbferved to make water oftener than ufual, but 
without pain or difficulty.- He was looked at by 
two or three practitioners in the country, who, not 
knowing what to make of it, advifed the letting it 
alone; at la ft, in the fpace-of five years, it got to the 
lower part of the fcrotum ; and, after it was got thi— 1 
ther, it was obferved to increafe in fize much fafter 
than it had done before* The boy was at a great dift- 
ance from London, and his friends could ill bear the 
expence of going thither with him; fo that another 
year pafied away after the tumor was got into the 
laft-mentioned fituation. At laft, when he was about 
thirteen 
