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where feveral fiftular Openings now were, and corm 
ing to Suppuration thereabout in a fhort time after, 
a great Quantity of Matter was difeharged by Inci- 
fion in Nottingham '■> whereupon the Surgeon had 
told him, that the Bone was bare; and fcon after 
had cut another Opening in the hind Part of his 
Arm, where there was another Gathering, and the 
Bone alfo laid bare , and drefied both Wounds, as 
expe&ing the Bone to fcale off ; but that meeting 
with no Cure, and, on the contrary, the Wounds 
to break open as oft as they had been healed up, and 
that Matter was ftill gathering in new Places, and the 
Swelling in the Bone to increafe, had determined 
him to look for a Cure in London . 
At this time there were five or fix fiflular Openings 
leading to the Bone diftilling a famous Matter on the 
Sides of the Tendon of the Deltoid Mufcle, and the 
hind Part of the Arm, where the Bone was principally 
enlarged,* tho" it was very remarkably increafed in Bulk 
the whole Way down to the Elbow. I could not 
with my Probe difeover the State the Bone was in ; 
but, being fatisfied it was carious, and that this Dif- 
temper was a Spina ventofa , propofed, for the Cure, 
the laying open all the Bone in the anterior Part of 
the Arm ; which the Patient readily fubmitted to. 
This Diftemper was found to be a Spina vento/a, 
or Cariofity in the Body of the Os Humeri , whereby 
above four Inches of the folid Bone had been de- 
ftroyed; all which was cafed in by an Exoftofis , or 
callous Expanfion ; faving in a few Places, where the 
Matter flowing from the medullary Cavity of the 
Bone had preferved an Opening. 
