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attendance in rotation, namely, Doctors 
Attwood, Mackenzie, Cameron, and Wall; 
and Meff. Edwards, Ruffel, and Jetferys) . 
having thoroughly examined the {ituation 
and figure of the parts difabled and in, 
pain, came to one of the phyficians, and 
told him, that the poor man’s thigh was 
diflocated ; that the head of the bone was 
{truck quite out of the acetabulum, and lay 
fairly in the groin. The phyfician having, 
in his younger days, attended Boerhaave 
(who, furely, underftood phyfic and fur- 
gery as well as any man ever did), and 
knowing that, from the prodigious 
ftrength of the ligaments, and depth of 
the focket in that articulation, this learn- 
ed Profeffor was of opinion, that ‘the 
thigh-bone was. never diflocated by ex- 
ternal violence, but freqhently broken 
near the head: -Which was the true rea- 
fon why fuch accidents were feldom, or. 
never, cured: The phyfician, I fay, per- 
fuaded, that his preceptor was in the | 
right, obferved to the furgeon, that there 
muit be a miftake fomewhere, and that 
there was no inftance on record,'which | 
could 
