C 54‘ ) 
Fig, V. In this the Tongue-is drawn in a lateral View, 
that we may have a ProfpeCt of the true Figure of 
thefe Papilla, which being hooked and turn’d back- 
wards prevent, in a great Meafure, the return of any 
little Animal fwallow’d alive, which they feed upon. 
Fig. Vf. The Cornua or Horns of the Os Hyoidaum 
are drawn in this lad Figure, as all the other Parts are, 
as big as the Life. 
1 
W HEREAS fome of our pradtifing Surgeons, 
as 1 am inform’d, have taken Offence at a 
Paflage in a Paper of mine, publifh’d in the laft Philofo - 
phi cal TranfaPlions, viz. By that fort of Enquiry the com- 
mon Mi flake of Surgeons iras detected, and vrhat vras 
efleem'd and treated by them as a L uxation of the Head of 
the Os femoris, vras difcover d to be nothing elfe but a fra - 
flure of the fame Bone near ids Neck; 1 take this firft 
Opportunity to explain my felf, that by the preceding 
Words I only meant the Writers of Surgery now ex- 
tant, as may appear by my Quotations, and not in 
the lead intended any Reflection on the prefent Practiti- 
oners in it. That skilful Society I not only RefpeCt and 
Efteem for their great Merit and extenfive Knowledge 
in the feveral Parts of their Profefiion, but to them 
am under many Obligations alfo, for the Honour they 
have done me in twice choofing me one of their Le- 
cturers. I have this farther to add, that that Obfer- 
vation was publifh’d entirely without my Knowledge 
about a Year after it had been read at a Meeting of the 
1 Royal Society . 
James Douglas. 
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