I am a M.R.C.S., Eng., residing in Norwich. I received a note from Dr. Bell on the morning of the 11th of February, who asked at what time I could see a patient of his who had been sent by a lady, to be placed under his care, to which I returned an answer, and agreeably to arrangement, Dr. Bell called on me, and proceeding on our way to Mrs. Phillips’, in Union Place, he said he believed the patient, Wm. Swann had a stone in his bladder. That Mr. John Coleby of North Walsham had examined him, but had not found one, and he therefore wished to be satisfied that he was correct in the opinion he had formed. That he intended to treat him homæopathically, and that if the man should not be relieved by his treatment, about which he was “sceptical,” (“as he had had no experience in this disease”)—he would then hand him over to me to be operated upon, as he believed I was fond of operating in such cases—I told him I had no fondness for cutting up anybody, but, that when operations came in my way, and they were necessary, I never hesitated to perform them. He said he was not in the habit himself of operating in such cases. I agreed to go and examine the case, stating at the same time that I would have nothing to do with the treatment he proposed. That if his system proved to be a sound one, I should not hesitate to proclaim it as a great boon to suffering humanity, but that if it should prove to be otherwise, he might rest assured I should expose it. Arriving at Nurse Phillips’, I there saw Swann, who was a man about five feet, nine or ten inches in height, in tolerably fair plight, no emaciation, no evidence of extensive organic disease going on, nothing beyond a slight wearing from the irritation which generally accompanies stone in the bladder, and with nothing in his appearance to interdict an operation after a week or two preparation, nor to exclude the benefits of opportune and proper treatment.