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quatuor erant hi finiftro pe&ore pro dlgitls, quinta 
vero eademque maxima dextrum deformabat pe&us, 
pollicem recipiens. Quam itaque perverfus fit ille, 
ct dcteftandus tenellos infantes tra&andi mos, fatis 
ille frequens. ex fupra di&is facile patebit, fpero, 
cuique. Si vero ad illos perveniat hasc obfervatio, 
quod valde optarem, qui infantum curas gerunt, 
plures, puto, a vitio illo immunes praeftari in pofte- 
rum poterunt homines, ne prima aztate male tra&ati 
hoc vcl alio modo non minus cauto, vel defiguren- 
tur ; vel ct tabe, vel alio morbo inde orto conluman- 
tur. Simillimam narratas obfervationem feci nupera 
hycme in puella duorum annorum. Et uti jam. 
monui in vivis etiam corporibus animadverti finnlia. 
Cum Rachitide ccetcroquin minime confundenda 
eft deformitas ifta. 
Dabam Caffellis Jan. 31. 
1747 - 
Joh. Jac. Huber, 
III. l!he Operation of Lithotomy on Women, 
by Mon if le Cat. M.D. 6P F.R.S. 
Tranjlated from the French by T. S. 
Read April 6 . r T™*'HE lateral Way of cutting for the 
*749- Stone, which I have ufed on Men 
fince 1732, naturally led me, in the Year 173 y, to 
cut the Widow Neel , a Farmer near Tvetot in the 
Rais de Caux in the fame manner, as has been feen 
in the Obfervation. In this Operation the common 
grooved Staff ferved me as a Director 5 and having 
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