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Ilium. Through both Wounds the Fasces' were 
chiefly difcharged for feveral Months after, and at 
Dreflings a great Number of flat Worms, dead or 
alive, were found upon the Plaifter. The Fasces 
having by degrees taken their Courfe through the 
Anus, in five or fix Months after, the two Wounds 
being healed up, the Patient returned to his Duty as 
a Soldier, and foon after was made Corporal, and 
then Serjeant. 
Eight Years after this, I had him again under my 
Care at the Hofpital, where he was brought with the 
Head of the Os Humeri , together with that of the 
Acromion and Clavicule, in the Articulation with the 
Scapula , fra&ured by a Cannon-fhot, which thereby 
was laid all open. The Limb was immediately cut 
off in the Articulation with the Scapula , having firft 
premifed a Ligature about the Flelh furrounding the 
Veffels, by thrufting clofe to the Bone a Pack-Needle 
armed with a ftrong Packthread, there being no room 
for the Tourniquet * : He loft very little more Blood 
in the Operation, than if a Tourniquet had been ap- 
plied 5 but the great Difcharge of Matter funk him, 
and he died the 8th Day after. 
The Death ot this Patient gave me an Opportunity 
of examining how the former Wound in the Gut 
had been cured. I had thought the Wound had been 
in the Ilium, from the Thinnefsof the Fasces difcharged 
through that Wound 5 but, upon DiiTettion, I found 
* Mr. Le Dran , in his Chirurgical Obfervations, Vol. II. Obferv. 
43. 12 9 * 1731. has defcribed the Manner of performing the Ampu- 
tation of the Humerus in the Articulation with the Scapula, to which 
the Reader is referred. 
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