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not perceiving an effusion of blood at that time, he dressed him as before, and 

 sent him in the afterneon to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he was admitted a 

 patient under the care of Mr. Feme; from which time he was constantly at- 

 tended, in expectation of a hemorrhage of blood from the subclavian artery; 

 but there being no appearance of fresh bleeding, it was not thought proper to 

 remove the dressings during the space of 4 days, when Mr. Feme opened the 

 wound, at which time likewise there was not the least appearance of any blood- 

 vessels ; so he dressed him up again, and in about 1 months time the cure was 

 entirely completed. 



On examining the arm, within a day or two after it was separated from the 

 body, they found the scapula fractured transversely, as were likewise the radius 

 and ulna in 2 places: but whether these bones were fractured before the arm 

 was torn off, the man cannot possibly judge. The muscles inserted into the 

 scapula were broken off near their insertions, but the muscles arising from the 

 scapula came away with it entire. The latissimus dorsi and pectoralis, were 

 likewise broken off near their insertions into the os humeri. The integuments 

 of the scapula, and upper part of the arm, were left on the body, as also the 

 clavicle. 



But it is very surprising, that the subclavian artery, which could never be 

 got at to be secured by art, should not bleed at all after the first dressing; the 

 artery being separated so happily, that when the coats of it were contracted, 

 the fleshy parts pressed against the mouth of it, and prevented any effusion 

 of blood. 



An Account of a Bullet which lodged near the Gullet for almost a Year. By 

 George Lord Carpenter, F. R. S. &c. N° 449, P- 3l6. 



The late Lord Carpenter was wounded in the mouth, at the defence of the 

 breach of Brihuega in Spain, by a small Spanish musket-ball, which having 

 taken away part of his upper lip, beat out all his teeth, except 2, on one side, 

 broke and splintered part of his upper jaw-bone, went through his tongue, and 

 lodged itself near his gullet, where it remained i>J weeks and 3 days, before it 

 was extracted, the surgeons thinking it had been spit out with some of his 

 teeth soon after his being wounded. 



The ledge which was made on the bullet by the 2 fore teeth, lying almost by 

 the gullet, and continually grating on it, occasioned an intolerable pain, and 

 preventing him from swallowing any thing but liquids, it brought him so low, 

 that his life being despaired of, to make a final trial, his tongue was drawn out 

 as far as it could be, and one of the surgeons feeling the ball with his probe, 

 which he then took to be a piece of a tooth, several pieces of teeth having 



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