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are bed cured by lenient Means, and the mod paci- 
fic Methods. 
5°. That, in that Stage of the Spina ventofa ; 
wherein the Bone is carnified, that is, turned into 
Flefh, with a painful Fungus {hooting out, as well 
from the callous Matter fpread over the carious Bone 
changed into Flefh, as from the carious Bone itfelf 
degenerated, that, in this Cafe, as there can be no 
Hopes of redoring it to itfelf, the Removal of the 
Bone fo degenerated, is the only Method to be pur- 
fued 5 as that will make way for the Application of 
the adual Cautery, wherein the Cure principally 
confids : And if this does not fucceed, we mud pro- 
ceed to Amputation. This was the Cafe of Mr.Cb- 
reho in St. Mary Axe , whofe Thumb Mr. Sainthill 
took off the 2 6 th of October , 1739? Mr. Feme and 
I being prefent : The lad Bone of which, affe&ed 
with a Spina ventofa about 18 Years, was fo fwelled 
out, and changed into Flefh, that not the lead Part 
of this Bone, as a Bone, was found, but only its car- 
tilaginous Covering, in the Articulation with the fe 
cond Internode 5 all the Bone itfelf being nothing elfe 
but a Lump of Flefh. 
Explanation of the Figures in Tab. II. 
Fig . 1 and 2. 
Reprefent a Spina ventofa in the Os Humeri of the 
right Arm, after an Operation performed upon it, 
during Life, with the exfoliative Trepan . The 
Didemper in the Bone being complicated with an 
Anchylofis and Cariofity of the Heads of the Cubi- 
tus and Radius in the Articulation of the Elbow, 
occafioned 
