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rofive a tendency, that it formed fimifis in every 

 direction downwards, furrounding the bones 

 to the different depths of two, three^ or four 

 inches. A feparation of parts in the prefent 

 comphcation was abfolutely impradicable, 

 without rendering to a certainty tlie remedy 

 worfe than the difeafe. Thus iituated, no 

 hope of cure could be entertained but by a 

 reunion of the divided parts ; to promote which> 

 a conitant fyringing with detergents was 

 adopted at every dreffing, the wound was 

 covered with Unt, plentifully impregnated with 

 the ftable digeflive, as warm as could be 

 applied with fafety, iirft infinuating as much 

 as poffible within the orifice (in the manner of 

 a tent), and covering all with a common 

 poultice of bread, milk, and oil, as the beft bed 

 for fo tender a part. 



By a perfeverance in this mode of treatment 

 the finufes wxre perfedtly united from the bot- 

 tom, and the wound completely healed (or 

 cicatrized) in little more than a month from 

 the time of my being called in, with no other 

 external inconvenience than a trifling enlarge- 

 ment of the joint, and an apparent callofity of 

 the integument. But, as I had every reafon to 

 F f 2 believe.. 



