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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1689 Excerpt:... Nevertheless," feeing the Operation is sometimes laborious, and that the Man who holds may be weary, it is better to make use of the first way. Chap. xin. Of the different ways'of Extracting the Stone, according it the Custonte of the EgyptTM-1 f3 The Tratlice of the high Operation, SOmetimes the Chirurgion cannot introduce the furrowed Catheter, because of pain or inflammation, occasioned by too frequent searching before, or because there may be fear of putting the Patient to too much pain, or that there may be a Carnositie or Callositie in the Part, or because the Stone is in the Perineunti or in theNeekof the Bladder. These different dispositions oblige the Operator to consider how and in what manner the Operation is to be performed. The first which is not in use,' is eal F 4, ted the high Operation;; The second and third are daily pra£tyfed, and are called the lesser, and the great Operation We pretend not to comprehend the two Methods, mentionded by Prosper Alpinus9 in the fourteenth Chapter, of his 3 d. Book of the Medjcin of the Egyptians, where he relates their Practise of extracting the Stone.okhp Bladder,:iwithout majking Incision,. but only by.Dilatation of the Urethra by blowing iiito the Yard. When I lived in Egypt, fays he, a certain 4K#fan named ifaly, in great Imputation for Extracting Stones without Incision took out leefal in. my presence forty jJtratri Beys, btilmWk (Demmaniderr in this manner'lie set aboUfcit; fre made uie,of 4 wbdden Pipe eigfit lingers longi ftndv aboiit ihe;thicknefej$f Jones Thumbs living applied this to the passage of: t&e!Yftro jtei'blew into St xviffr great. 'force; at the lime time with, the other'hand he presledthe extreme of the Pifitry, Part towards the Rerftfeutn, d hinderthe Wind from entriag,itftt the...