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L. An Account of the Cafe of a Boy, who had 
the Malleus of each Ear , and one of the In - 
cus's, dr opt out . Communicated by the Rev , 
Philip Morant, M. A . Red! or of St. Mary’s 
in Colchefter. 
Read Nov. ig, A Young lad, at Manningtree in Ef- 
fex, cc after about three or four 
weeks of a putrid, malignant, inflammatory fever, 
attended with a violent fcarlet eruption on the fkin, 
and fwelling and forenefs, and ftuffage of the nofe, 
had the malleus of each ear, and one of the incus’s, 
dropt out. Whether or no any of the reft came 
away unobferved, my friend cannot tell j but thefe 
were all he faw. Nor can he fay, whether the 
membrane was deftroyed, and difcharged with the 
bones, or only fo relaxed, as to give room for the 
bones to come without it ; not having feen the bones, 
till after they were cleaned. But the confequence is, 
his having almoft abfolutely loft his hearing ; I fay 
a lmoJl y becaufe, though he is quite deaf as to all com- 
mon voices and founds, yet fomc violent and fudden 
notfes feem to affett him. But the organ of both 
ears feems to be fo much deftroyed, as to make it 
highly improbable, that he fhould ever recover his 
hearing again. In all other refpedts, he is very well, 
and at prefent in good health. The coming away 
of thofe bones feems the effect of an abfcefs, which 
affected the contents .of the tympanum.” 
Another friend obferves, that “ his diforder has 
been a malignant or ulcerous fore throat, as he judges 
from 
