CHANNEL ISLANDS.
sively in Jersey for the last thirty years. Nor has
that gentleman heard of the operation having been
performed by any other surgeon. I think it however
not unlikely, that other instances of calculus, demanding
the skill of the surgeon, may have occurred during
that period: but that the great London operators may
have been resorted to, as being more conversant, by
daily practice, in the use of the knife: and especially
as, both in the medical and surgical diseases of these
islands, the faculty of London have long come in for
no inconsiderable share of practice; and particularly
of late years, since the communication by water has
been facilitated and extended.
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