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five weeks at leaff. Thefe horns were renewed, 
next year, and were longer than the buck’s of 
the fame age; but the palms, or collateral 
branches, were lefs and fhorter, and neither the 
velvet of the horns, nor the horns themfelves 
were ever call afterwards. 
I fhall now beg leave to lay before the Society, 
two cafes, that have not been publifhed, in order 
to prove ftill further the dodtrine I have been 
endeavouring to eftablifh. 
Roger Nuttal, of Bury, twenty years of age, 
was admitted an in-patient of the Manchefter 
infirmary under my care, on the 23d of January, 
1775, f° r a tumor on his back- Upon dripping 
off his Ihirt, to (hew me the tumor, 1 was (truck 
with a very Angular appearance of a (tump of 
the right humerus. 1 alk^d him, if he was born 
with it in that form, or whether his arm had 
been taken off. He informed me, that Mr. Kay 
Allen had taken his arm off clofe to the 
fnoulder, when he was but four years old, and 
that the (lump was grown again to that length, 
which feemed to be about eight inches longer 
than he defcribed it to have been, immediately 
afcer the amputation. I enquired both of his 
mother, and Mr. Allen, as to the truth of his 
relation, which they both confirmed ; and the 
latter, with this addition, that the arm was taken 
off, as near the Ihoulder, as the application of 
the tournequet would permit. The bone had 
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