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Proceeding;, this difficult Cure was afcertained in lefs 
than a Month, and intircly finifhed in fix, the Pa- 
tient having now the Power of his Arm as complete 
as ever. Nor is the Limb at all disfigured or (hort- 
ended; the expanded incircling Bone attached to the 
Ends of the Os Humeri preventing this ; fo that the 
only appearing Defed is, that the Bone about the 
Wound is thicker than ufual; but that {Lengthens it, 
and fupplies a Defed in the anterior Part of the 
Arm, where there is a confiderable Hollownefs. 
In favour of the young Surgeons I (hall clofe this 
Account with a few Remarks, by way of Infe- 
rence 5 and deferibe the Figures of fome Bones, 
which that expert Surgeon and Anatomift Mr. Haw - 
kins , Surgeon to His Royal Highnefs the Prince of 
Wales , fhew'd upon this Occafion. 
i°. That 'tis highly probable, a fuppurated Thleg - 
mon in the Marrow, upon the Crifis of a Fever, 
hath been the original Caufe of the Spina ventofa 
In the two Cafes before us; and thar, if the Bone 
had been denudated, and the Opening made thro* 
it inlarged, when the Matter firft made its Way 
thro' the Integuments, that the Progrefs of the Evil 
had been prevented in both, and the Cure brought 
about in the laid Cafe with a far greater Eafe. 
2 0 . That a large Opening is always more advan- 
tageous than many fmaller, feemingly equal to it. 
And this appears plain in the two Cafes mentioned, 
inafmuch as the Matter which was difeharging thro' 
the many large Foramina in the Bones correspond- 
ing with the medullary Cavity in them, have not 
prevented the Progrefs of the Evil ; and therefore 
we may conclude, that as a large Opening in the 
Bone, 
