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that they very eafily gave way, and the reduction was 
efheded with as little difficulty, as ever I faw in a dis- 
location of the humerus. 
Might not the giving ftrong purgatives, and fre- 
quently repeating them, l'o as to render the mufcles of 
throng mufcular fubjeds more lax and weak, be a 
means of reducing luxations of the humerus, which 
are not reducible by any method of extenlion, which 
is often found the cafe ? 
I am, SIR, 
Your very humble fervant, 
Charles Yonge. 
LXXVI. Some Obfervations upon a Samnite- 
Etrufcan Coin , never before fully explained, 
hi a Letter from the Rev. John Swinton, 
B.D. of Chrift- Church, Oxon. F. R. S. 
to the Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. Secre- 
tary to the Royal Society. 
Reverend Sir, 
Read June 19, *T Have in my fmall colledion a filver 
X Etrufcan coin, of the lize of the 
confular denarii, fimilar to one publiffied by (1) Ful- 
vius Urfinus, (2) Patin, (3) Vaillant, (4.) Havercamp, 
P* 
(1) Fulv. Urfin. in Famil. Romanar. num. incert. 
(2) Car. Pat. ibid. 
(3) J- in Famil . Romanar. num. incert. 
(4) Sig. Haverc. apud Andr. Morel, in Thefaur. Numifmat. 
459 - 
5 R 2 and 
