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Fork, a Silver Spoon, mack in the Handle like a 
modern one; the Bowl is pointed like an Olive-leaf; 
a Cafe of Surgeon’s Inftruments, feveral Kitchen 
Utenfils, Moufe-traps, Veflfels full of Rice, a Trium- 
phal Car of Bronze, &c. 
VII. A remarkable Cure performed by John 
Cagua, Surgeon , at Plymouth- Dock, of a 
Wound of the Head complicated •with a 
large Fracture and Depreflion of the Skull , 
the Dura Mater and Brain wounded and 
lacerated: Communicated in a Letter to 
William Chefelden, Efq\ F. R. S. &c. 
J UNE ii. 1729. I was fent for to Mr. John 
T>arton of Stonehoufe near Plymouth, to fee his 
Son, aged 10 Years, who fell down from the Top 
of an old Wall, as he was taking out a Sparrows 
Neft, upwards of 20 Feet high, in an antient Build- 
ing belonging to the Honourable Richard Rdgecumbe , 
Efq;. When I came, I found him fpeechlefs, 
comatofe , bloated Eyes, a wan Face, bleeding at the 
Nofe and Ears, and a great Hemorrhage and Vo- 
miting: On Examination, a large, long, deep, and 
contufed Wound appeared, from the Eyebrow all 
over the Left Side of his Head; and after having 
fhaved him, was furprifed to feel, with my Fingers, 
fo many rugged Splinters of the Cranium confufedly 
deprelfed through the Ptura and Pia Mater into the 
Subfiance of the Brain ; the Extremities whereof 
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