Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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a healthy Negro ever fince, with the almoft perfect ufe of his arm. Within thefe 20 years I have had feveral fuch cafes under my care as Mr. Inett’s, communicated by Dr. Hunter in the Medical Obfervations, vol. II. page 303, where the pa¬ tient was cured by amputation*; and I can with truth affert that I never in one inflance failed faving the limb. The cafes I mean are thofe, in which a part of a difeafed tibia is intirely fe- parated, and covered over with a bony callous, which encompafies it in the form of a tube. My treatment has been, to lay open the tubular part, till I had room enough to extra# the old bone: I then dreffed with lint and digeftive, and applied a bandage with fome degree of preifure. In the year 1760 Mr. Jofeph Egglefton of Amelia county brought * The common refource in thefe cafes,

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