Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    :6 MEDIC .A L had hurt his arm confiderably; from which time he had not been able to life it. They fufpe&ed no fra&ure, and had treated it their own way. There was a fmall ulcer a little be¬ low the head of the os humeri, which conftantly difcharged; but I could not increafe that difcharge by any preffure I could make. I endeavoured feveral times in vain to trace with a probe the fource of the matter. - At laft I found the probe flip down within the cavity of the os humeri; and, by palling it as far as it would reach, I plainly perceived, that the fldes of the bone were carious, and very ragged. I now was convinced, that the whole of the os humeri was a mere fhell, or tube filled with matter; which could not difcharge itfelf freely, as the orifice was at the upper part of the bone, and concluded that there had been originally a fradture, and that the parts continued feparated. As
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