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tocks, were pinched, or over-much pressed. He had lately had the small-pox, 

 and these had suffered by it equally with him. At his navel Dr. C. found a 

 considerable rupture, which was covered by this portion of a body. This 

 rupture would grow monstrously large in wet weather, and would diminish again 

 in dry. It had a circular hole in it, which ran through the peritonaeum. The 

 boy was of a thin habit of body, but otherwise enjoyed good health. His 

 father told the Doctor that this was the 7th child his wife bore him. She was 

 30 years of age at his birth, and bore hin) 2 more afterwards. All the rest were 

 of the natural shape. 



Three extraordinary Cases in Surgery. By Bezaleel Sherman, Surgeon, at 

 Kelvedon in Essex. N° 453, p. 138. 



Samuel Bush, being. on the top of a very high timber tree, in order to shake 

 down the acorns, he let go his hold ; and by falling from one bough of the tree 

 on another, he broke his thigh-bone ; and one end of it, by the force of the 

 fall, stuck fast in the ground, which fractured the bone in another place, about 

 2-^ inches above the former. This entire piece of the os femoris was taken out; 

 notwithstanding which, so large a callus united the two ends of the bone, that 

 his thigh, when cured, was very little more than a quarter of an inch shorter 

 than the other thigh. The surgeon who had the care of him, used his utmost 

 endeavours, during the cure, to preserve the extension; but he imputed the 

 largeness of the callus to a very great quantity of lap. osteocolla, which he 

 made him take for 6 weeks or 2 months, in powder with milk, in an electuary, 

 in his bread, and in his pudding ; in short, in almost all the food he took. 



One Fitch, of the parish of Kelvedon, had a foul ulcer in his mouth, with a 

 caries in the lower jaw-bone, one part of which, from the suture at the chin to 

 the end of it under the ear, in process of time entirely came out, with '3 teeth 

 in it. This was also owing to a great quantity of osteocolla internally given, 

 which was thought not only to expedite this large exfoliation, but at the same 

 time to generate so large and firm a callus, that he can chew a hard crust, or 

 any other food, on that side, as well as on the other. 



John Spilnian, had a sinuous ulcer in his rectum, about 2 inches from the 

 anus. This had remained a twelvemonth, and was taken for the piles, and 

 treated as such, both internally and externally. Mr. S. soon perceived a tumour 

 in his buttock, 2 or 3 inches from the anus, which coming to suppuration, he 

 opened it by incision ; and after dressing it several weeks with little prospect of 

 success, he discovered at the bottom of the ulcer something that looked like a 

 bone, which when extracted, proved to be the lower jaw of a fish, as a whiting. 



