CHAP. XXXIX. What must be done the stone being fallen into the necke of the bladder, or passage of the yard.
AFter the stone is fallen out of the capacity of the bladder, and stops in the necke thereof, or passage of the yard, the Surgeon shall have a speciall care that he do not force or thrust backe the stone from whence it came, but rather that he press it gently with his fingers to the end of the yard, the passage being first made slippery by injecting some oyle of sweet almonds. But if it stop in the end of the Glans, it must bee plucked out with some crooked instrument; to which if it will not yeeld, a Gimblet with a pipe or case thereto, shall be put into the passage of the yard, and so it shall be gotten out, or else broken to pieces by the turning or twining about of the Gimblet, which I remember I have divers times at∣tempted and done; for such Gimblets are made with sharpe screwes, like ordinary Gimblets.
Verily what Gimblets soever are made for this businesse, their body nor point must bee no thicker than a small probe; lest whilst they are forced or thrust into the urethra, or urinary pas∣sage, they might hurt the bodies next un∣to them by their violent entrance.