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folded Wires were pafs’d in at the four Holes of the back part 7 
of the Cubitus and Radius , where their Duplicatures were form- 
ed j and the fifth Wire put into the Hole made in the middle of 
the External Bone of the firft Rank of the Carpus , was continued 
with the reft through the Bones of thedecond Rank to thofe of the 
Metacarpus , where they run from one Extremity to another; that 
is to fay, the outer part of the folded Wire from the Cubitus, 
did run down the outfide of the External Bones of the firft and 
fecond Rank of the Car; us, to the External Bone of the Metacarpus , 
all along, till it was brought out at the Extremity of the furtheft 
Bone of the Toe belonging thereto:, end the inner part of the 
fame Wire paflingfrom the Cubitus through the fame two Bones 
of the Carpus, ran down to the third Bone of the Metacarpus from 
the outfide, from whence ’twas convey’d to the Extremity of its 
Toe, and there riveted. The third Wire pafs’d from its entry 
in the middle of the External Bone o: the firft rank of the Carpus, 
to that of the fecond, and from thence down to the fecond Bone 
of the ^Metacarpus , from the outfide, to the Extremty of its Toe, 
where it was faftned ; and the folded Wire fromthe back-part of 
the Radius pafs’d down at two Places through the middle Bone 
of the firft rank of the Carpus, to that of the fecond rank, and from 
thence to the fourth and fifth Bones of the Metacarpus from the 
outfide, and ftill forward to the Extremities of their Toes, where 
they were fix’d. This done, 1 caus’d to be perforated the External 
Bones of the Carpus fwice, i. e. toward their fore and back part, as 
alfo the Metacarpus at the upper and lower Extremity ; palling the. 
Drills from the outfide to the inner of each Bone, or from the 
Right to the Left, by which the Bones above were as well join’d 
with their Sides, as with thofe below them ; fo that each was 
kept fecure in its Place, efpecially the Bones of the Metacarpus, 
'which would have too readily feparated from each other, and 
endanger’d the breaking the Wires, by which they w^ere- join’d 
with thofe above. Since the third Bone of the firft rank of the 
Carpus lies, as it were, at the fide of both Ranks, therefore 1 
thought it convenient to pafs the two Extremities of the Wire, 
which run from the right to the left, in the firft Rank, that fo 
it might be faftned with its Partner on the infide ; and fince the 
Internal Bone of the Metacarpus yet remain’d to be join’d, this 
inner Bone of the Carpus was again perforated, and a Wire 
brought from it to the inner Bone of the fecond Rank, and from 
U thence 
