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count of a remarkable operation on a broken 
arm.” In this case the fracture had been 
treated, at first, by a country bone-setter; 
but after a lapse of several months, there 
were no signs of a callus being formed; and 
the patient, in other respects a healthy boy, 
was brought to the Manchester Infirmary. 
Mr. White advised a longitudinal incision to be 
made; the fractured ends of the bone to be 
carefully brought out ; the extremities of both 
to be cut off, and then returned to their pro- 
per situation. The union, which had, pro- 
bably, been prevented by the intervention of 
some extraneous substance, soon took place, 
and the boy was discharged perfectly cured. 
The 56th Volume of the same Transac- 
tions containsthe relation by Mr. White, of a 
complete luxation of the thigh bone of an adult 
person, by external violence; a case, at that 
time, supposed by many surgeons to have sel- 
dom, if ever, happened: And in the 59th 
Volume is inserted a communication, from 
Mr. White, giving an account of an instance 
im which the upper head of the Os Humeri 
was sawed off, and though a large portion of 
the bone afterwards exfoliated, yet the entire 
motion of the arm was preserved. 
In the year 1770, Mr. White published a 
Volume containing, not only the papers al- 
