III. La Lettre de Charles Drelincourt, a M. Porree, ſur la Methode, pretendue Nouvelle, de tailler la pierre: Avec trois autres a Monſieur Vallot, Premier Medicin de ſa Majeſte. A Leide, 1674. in 12°.
These Letters were written by the learned Author, upon the Occaſion of a New Lithotomiſt in France, pretending to cut all Sorts and Sexes of Mankind, of the Stone in the Bladder, how big ſoever, without any considerable Medical Preparatives; which, as to Men, he would perform by introducing into the Anus, ſome Fingers of his right Hand, well oyled, and thereby finding the Stone immediately, and thruſting it into the neck of the Bladder, where it is to be held faſt by an Aſſiſtant; and thereupon having withdrawn his right-hand-fingers, he would place his Patient in a due poſture, and then oyl ſome Fingers of his left Hand, and ſlide them into the ſame place, turning the Neck of the Bladder, together with the Stone, towards the ſmall left Trochanter, till with his right Hand he could draw the Skin of the perineum towards the right femur, where 'tis to he held with his left Thumb, and then with a fit ſingle Inſtrument he would make a Semi-lunar Inciſion, and ſo without any other Myſtery, as he ſpeaks, draw out the Stone, and then apply healing Medicines.
As to Women, he would perform the Operation adigendo digitos in ſinum pudoris, &c.
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