Sq6 essays, and observations 



lour of the Ikln in that diretflion, by 

 wiiich the (lerriraTi. and the three under- 

 moil true ribs of the right fide were 

 fratlured ; it alfc made him throw up a 

 confiderable quantity of blood. An al- 

 moft conftant cracking noife was diilindl- 

 ly heard by every one that was with- 

 in eight or nine yards of him ; and, up- 

 on examination, I found it was caufed 

 by the edges of the fractured flernum 

 grating on one another j for, by laying 

 my hand on his breaft, 1 could eafily feel 

 the u'nder part of the flernum, by every 

 infpiration, puflied paft the upper part, 

 which had very little feafible motion ; 

 srw^, with expiration, returned in again fo 

 far, that, with my fingers, I felt the 

 fi-adured edge of the upper part of the 

 flernum. 



When, with my hand^ I endeavoured 

 to keep the under part of the bone, that 

 it could come no farther out than in- 

 to a line with the upper part, it caufed 

 fuch a kind of uneafinefs, as made him 

 bpth breathlefs and faintifli j and he 



could 



