334 A//'. White on the Regeneration 
There is another fimilar cafe related by Mr. 
Latham, * but with this difference, that this 
patient did not caft her nails. 
By performing the operation for the cure of 
the aneurifm, feveral inches of the trunks of the 
principal arteries, both of the arm and the thigh, 
have been deftroyed; yet in a few days, the cir¬ 
culation through the whole limb, has been car¬ 
ried on, as perfectly, as before the operation. 
The method, which nature has taken for accom- 
plifhing this bufinefs, may be feen by an engrav¬ 
ing f from a preparation which I made, and 
which Dr. Hunter has done me the honour to give 
a place amongft his valuable collection. 
There is a very extraordinary hiftory of a glans 
penis regenerated after amputation, related by 
Mr. Jamifon, furgeon at Kello, and inferted in 
the Edinburgh Medical Effays.ff; The young 
man was married, in that country, about two 
years after the cure, has had two children, and 
complains not of want or defedt even in fenfatioi^. 
Crabs and lobfters caft their fiiells, both from 
their bodies, less, and claws, and even caft their 
ftomachs, generally every year, which are im¬ 
mediately regenerated. The fhell is renewed 
by a fluid, which they ejedt •, and it inverts their 
whole body, growing hard and dry, in a fhorr 
* Philof. Tranfa&ions vol. LX. p. 451. 
f See my Cafes in Surgery, p. 140. 
J Vol. VI. p. 434. 
time. 
