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could not endure to have it held fo above 

 two minutes at one timer 

 . I faw him about half an hour after he 

 got the misfortune; at which time he 

 was cold and faint, as he had not got 

 quite the better of the infenfible (late he 

 was in for fome time after the wheel wenc 

 over him. I ordered him a draught of 

 Warm weak negas, and caufed warm 

 .flannels to be wrapt round his legs, and 

 hot bricks laid to his feet j yet, notwith- 

 llanding, a pretty fevere rigor came on, 

 vyhich was followed with a fever, and very 

 great difficulty in breathing, 



I rnufl: frankly own, that this patient's 

 cafe feemed to me defperate, confid^^ring 

 his age, the injury done, and impediment 

 given to the motion of the lungs. Sec 

 and the abfolute impoffibility of keeping 

 the ilernum fixed in its proper place, 

 that the callus might generate. But as 

 no cafe, however defperate, ought to be 

 negleded, I refolved to do all I could for 

 this patient; and for that purpofe, as his 

 palie became full, I took fonle blood from 

 him, and repeated it pro re iiata ; gave 



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