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(hot-wound) than tranfverfly ; if he had, I am perfua* 
ded, that this curious Obfervator would never have 
omitted it in his Obfervations. 
Ruyjch in his Centuria obfervationum An atomic o*Chirur- 
gicarum 4 c. obfervatio 3, writes as follows. Vatellam 
propter duritiem fuam haud frangi pojfe nonnulli perverfe 
afferunt . Nos vero eandem non foltim & cafu gravtori 
in genu frangi expert i fumus , verum etiam fine cafu ; c 11- 
jus ret Hifioriam recenjere animus eft* Ante tres 
pr<eterprcpter annos , vifitavi cum Magifiro Petro Adri- 
ani filio , virum fatis robufium t qui a ponte defcendens in ter - 
ram fere ceciderat ; uno pede lubricoy reftflens tamen quan- 
tum potuit , in Terram non fuerat prolapfus ; fed ab ilia re • 
fiflentia vehementijfima tranfverfim fratta ejus patella , & 
adco qu'tdem evident er t ut inter ut rum quo locari potuerit 
manus , una enim fupra altera infra genu fentiebatur . 
This Obfervation is fo like in all its circumflances 
to that which I related above, elpecially in that the 
Fradture was made without a fall, that I am very apt 
to believe it is the fame ; and do imagine he might be 
deceived by miflaking the hard end of the Ligament for 
the broken Bone. 
And when thefe fort of Accidents, which are now 
called Fradtures of the Patella , come to be nicely ex- 
amined ; they will perhaps be found to be generally 
of the fame Nature. 
If A 
