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happened at the age of fixty-eight. In the other 
cafe, the bone was luxated downwards and inwards, 
and the head fixed upon the foramen ovale. 
There is a cafe too related, and very well attefted, 
in the Edinburgh effays, philofophical and literary, 
vol. 2d, of a man at Worcefter, who had the head 
of the bone thrown out of the acetabulum, and 
lodged in the groin. It was with fome difficulty re- 
duced, and the man fuffered no other inconvenience, 
than that of the leg’s being about a quarter of an inch 
longer than the other. 
To thefe, let me add, that, about thirty years ago, 
my father was fent for to a man, who had luxated 
his thigh bone three or four days before. The head 
of it lay in the groin, which the furgeon, who was 
firfit employed, did not difcover. However, it was 
immediately replaced, and the patient recovered the 
ufe of his limb, in a very ffiort time. 
From what I have faid, I would by no means have 
it concluded, that the neck of the bone is not fome- 
times broken, or that it is not even oftener broken 
than luxated : but, from the cafe, which has fallen 
directly under my notice, joined to thofe, which I 
have above recited, Lthink it mull appear very clear, 
that it has been frequently luxated, and that two dif- 
ferent w r ays. 
C. White. 
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