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him as a fort of gardener at Starborough) ; who far- 
ther added, “ that the fhock waked and frighted his 
“ wife, tho’ fhe was faff aileep before.” 
6th April, 1758. James Burrow. 
LXXXIII. An Account of the Cafe of the 
Fir ft Joint of the Thumb torn off, with the 
Flexor Tendon in its whole Extent torn out. 
By Robert Home, late Surgeon to the 
Thirtieth Regiment of Foot, and Surgeon 
at Kingfton upon Hull. In a Letter to 
John Pringle, M. D. F. R. S. 
S I R, 
Read April 6, T Take the liberty of incloffng to you a 
X cafe in furgery, which I imagine is 
not very common. Marchetis indeed has an ob- 
fervation of the fame kind 5 and there are feveral 
others collected together by Monf. Morand, in the 
fecond volume of the Memoires of the Royal Aca- 
demy of Surgery at Paris : but as I have not heard 
of that volume’s being tranflated into Englifh, and 
believe there is no obfervation of a fimilar nature in 
the Philofophical Tranfadtions, I beg the favour of 
you to communicate it to the Royal Society, of 
which you are a Fellow ; and at the fame time to 
make them an offer of the joint of the thumb, with 
its adherent tendon, which you will receive at the 
Vol. 50, 4 K fame 
