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parallel to it, and continued jo, unkfs the patient, 
either when alleep or at any other time, moved his 
body, fo as to drag his leg: in that cafe, the toe 
was always found inclining inwards, and the heel 
outwaid ; but never fo, but that it might be replaced, 
without the lead; difficulty or pain to him, but juft fo 
as one might have done by a limb that was paralytic. 
W e therefore recommended reft, hoping that farther 
reft and time would recover the perfed eafe and 
ftrength of the limb. But fome days pafftng without 
any alteration, I gave him a ftrong purgative, and 
repeated it every other or every third day, for feveral 
times, in order to reduce the mufcles, that I might 
the more plainly feel any thing through them. For 
though he was, in point of height, but middle fized, he 
was pi etty flefhy, and the glutasi mulcles confequently 
too thick to fuffer any thing to be felt with any de- 
gme of diftindneis through them. This anfwered 
my expedation fully j. for, by repeating the purga- 
tive often, and at fhort intervals, his living fparingly. 
and being confined to his bed, he became much 
emaciated, infomuch, that the head of the femur 
was plainly felt through the mufcles, diflocated back- 
ward, and lying in the fpace between the os ifchium 
and os facrum. 
.Of this I acquainted the gentlemen, who had exa- 
mined it before, and defired them to examine it a 
fecond time; which they did, on the 15th Septem- 
ber, and were immediately convinced, that the os 
femoris was diflocated, and that it was the head of 
the bone we felt through the glutaft mufcles, in the 
fpace between the ifchium and facrum. 
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