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an impoflibility that the ends of the torn Ligament 
fbould be fo exadly plac’d, and retain’d as not to lie 
one over the other. 
Pare e in the iid Chapter of his 15th Book af- 
firms, that he never faw one of thofe who have had 
this Bone broken, but that halted during the reft of 
their lives .* I am very apt to believe what this ex- 
cellent Author affirms about the halting, and am forry l 
muft diflent from his notions of the cafe, and the 
caufe of the Lamenefs. Hildanus in his Obfervationes 
ChiruYgicA. Cent. 5th. Obferv , 88* P. m. 48 £, has given 
us a Hiftory of a tranfverfe Fradure of this Bone, which, 
after all the Symptoms were remov’d, was cur’d. Sed 
claudicatio ac fumma imbecillitas totius cruris fecuta eft, 
it a ut non nifi maxima, cum difficultate ambulare poftit. 
He afterwards mentioning the caufe of the Lamenefs 
makes a Quasry, if what Paree (to whom this Obferva- 
tion is dedicated) (ays in his Exc. lib. de ojftbus , lib # 4. 
cap . 2. can be the caufe of the Lamenefs ; his words 
are, Etfi vero Opinio nem hancce rationi confentaneam ejje 
in dubium revocare minime conabor , urns tamen reft at 
fcrupulus, videlicet , an , fraPtd patelld , extuberantia calli 
talis efte poftit , ut cavitatem hancce (qua inter femur & os 
tibi£ magna eft) adeo adimpleat , ut motum act io new que ge- 
nu imps dire poftit ? Videmus cnim ut plurimum in reliquis 
oftium frafturis, ( nifi contritio oftis <& per'toftei fuerit max- 
ima ) naturam tam decenter & eleganter connettere ofta , ut 
rafb relinquatur veftigium { raft urn. Perioftiurn enim , quam 
din integrum eft , materiam calli retinet, quo minus in ex- 
tuberantiam excrefcere poftit , nifi, ike. Deinde in hoc noftro 
JEgro callum non fuijfe caufam chudicationis ex (equen- 
tibus apparebit : quapropter diftinttione hie opus eft . df- 
ter this he goes on to fhow 11s how many ways this 
Bone may be fradur’d, but doth not obferve thar he 
ever Law it any other way broken, ( unlefs in a Gun- 
ihoc* 
