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fame time with this ; hoping they will do me the 
honour of accepting it, as a teftimony (tho’ trifling) 
of my great efteem and refpcdl for the mofl learned 
Society in Europe Your Friend Dr. Knox faw the 
patient drefled oftener than once 5 and Mr. Thorn- 
hill, late Surgeon and Manmidwife in Briftol, faw 
it when near healed. 
I beg you will believe me to be, with great truth, 
S I R, 
Your mofl: obedient, 
„ „ ,, , , and mofl: humble Servant, 
Hull, March 27 th, 
175 %- Robert Home. 
J Anuary 2d, 1758, William Taylor, 17 years of 
age, an apprentice to a white-fmith in this place, 
in endeavouring to make his efcape from one, who 
was going to correct him, opened the door of a cel- 
lar, and threw himfelf into it j but in his hurry fo 
intangled his right thumb with the latch, that the 
whole weight of his body was fupended by it, 
until it gave way, and was torn off at the firfl: arti- 
culation j the flexor tendon being at the fame time 
pulled out in its whole length, having broke when it 
became mufcular. I was immediately fent for, found 
little or no haemorrhage, and the bone of the fecond 
phalanx fafe, and covered with its cartilage, but pro- 
truding conflderably, occafioned by part of the fkin 
belonging to it being irregularly torn off with the 
firfl: joint. 
I was doubtful, whether or not I fhould be ob- 
liged, at laft, to make a circular incifion, and faw 
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