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dry. It has a circular Hole in it, which runs through 
the ^eritomeum. The Lad is of a thin Habit of 
Body, but otherwife enjoys good Health. His Father, 
Michael Martinetth a Tinker, told me, that this is 
the feventh Child his Wife Kunciada bore him. She 
was thirty Years of Age at his Birth, and bore him 
two more lince. All the reft were of the natural 
Shape. 
IX. ^bree extraordinary Cafes in Surgery, hy 
Bezaleel Sherman, Surgeon^ at Kelvedon in 
Effex, communicated in November 1738. 
VAMURL Bufh, of the Parifli of Wickham-Bi^ 
^ fhopSj in September 1704. being on the Top of 
a very high Timber Tree, in order to lhake down the 
Acorns, he let go his Hold ; and by falling from one 
Bough of the Tree upon another, he broke his Thigh- 
bone 5 and one End of it, by the Force of the Fall, 
ftuck faft in the Ground, which fraftured the Bone 
in another Place, about two Inches and an half above 
the former. This intire Piece of the Os Femoris was 
taken out ; notwithftanding which, fo large a Callus 
united the two Ends of the Bone, that his Thigh 
(when cured) was very little more than a quarter of 
an Inch fhorter than the other Thigh. The Surgeon 
who had the Care of him, ufed his greateft Endeavours, 
during the Cure, to preferve the Extenfion 5 but he 
imputed the Largenefs of the Callus to a very great 
Quantity of Lap. OJieocolla, which he made him take 
for fx Weeks or two Months, in Powder with Milk, 
in 
