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XCVII. A further Account of the Cafe of 
the Family at Wattifham, in Suffolk, whofe 
Limbs mortified ; In a Letter from Charl- 
ton Wollafton, M. F). F. R. S. and Phy~ 
fcian to Guy s Hofpital, to Thomas Birch, 
£). D . Secretary to the Royal Society. 
Dear Sir, Pall-Mall, Oft. 29, 1762. 
ing an account of a moft remarkable mortification of 
the limbs, which had affeded a whole family in Suf- 
folk. As the fociety may be curious to know fome 
farther particulars relating to this fingular. calamity, I 
thought it might not be improper to acquaint them, 
that moft of the unhappy fufferers have furvived it. 
The father is perfectly recovered ; except that the 
two fingers, which were particularly affcded, remaia 
in fome degree contraded. 
The mother is ftill alive. In my former account 
dated April 13, I mentioned, that one of her 
feet had feparated at the ankle; and that the 
other leg was perfedly fphacelated to within a few 
inches of the knee, but not then taken off. Some 
little time afterwards the hufband broke off the tibia, 
which was quite decayed, about three inches below 
the knee 1 the fibula was not decayed ; fo the furge- 
on fawed it off. The ftumps of both legs ftill con- 
tinue unhealed ; and as the ends of the bones in both 
of tnem feem to be cariofe, and the woman will not 
content to any farther operation, they may perhaps 
Read ~“ 
R. Heberden fome time fince com- 
municated a letter from me, giv- 
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