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If, upon the belt examination, thefe thoughts be 
ound to hold good, which I am much perfuadcd 
t ey 10 great mealure will; I promife my felf anop- 
P™^ °' “ raw ' n g fome farther pradhcal Remarks, 
and mail venture to communicate them to you, with 
the lame freedom, I now do. 
V* An Account of two extraordinary cafes in Sur- 
gery : Communicated by t>r. Steigerthall, F. R. S. 
Ebftorff, A lay the iph, lyzo. 
frefent Dr. Nottellman, Mr. Henzel an Officer 
of the Cuflom, and Mr. Niemeyer, Auditor. 
J Ohn Henry Oiz-mann, aged 3 1 Years and bora ac 
Brnim, was fifteen Years of Age, when the foi- 
lowing Misfortune befel him. 
He felt a Spafmus or Cramp in his left Hip and 
the inferiour Fart of his Leg; as this pain feized 
h.m pretty often, he confulted Mr. Rack a Surgeon 
at Uhen, who applied feveral Plaifters to the place 
where the pain was, but without any relief to the 
Patient. After all thofe fruitlefs efforts, the Surgeon, 
to fee whether Oizmann had ftill a feeling in his Lea 
("which to outward appearance was become very 
brown; made about 37 Incifions over the whole Leg 
of which the Patient was not at all fenfible, except 
at luch times when the Inflrument happened to grate 
upon the Bone the Periofteum being as yet found 
and not mfefled by the Difcafe of the Flefli. The 
•Leg however did daily grow blacker, and the pain 
continued both in the Periofteum and in all the Bodies 
