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XLIV. A remarkable Cafe a/' F ragility, Flexi- 
bility, and DiFolution, of the Bones ; com- 
municated by John Pringle, M,D. F. R.S. 
Read July 12, 
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M 
ARY Flayes, ofStoke-Holy -Crols, 
near Norwich in Norfolk 
gave 
the following Account, June 21, 1752 : 
That Ihe was born Jan. 11, 1718, and never mar- 
ried, or was addidled to any kind of Intemperance : 
That her father was unhealthy a great part of his life, 
but the knew not what difeafe he was fubjedt to : That 
her mother died when die was a child; but die did not 
remember the ever heard of her being unhealthy : 
That die herfelf was always look’d upon as an healthy 
drong girl, till about 1 7 years of age j then fell into 
the green-ficknefs, and took various medicines, to no 
purpofe : That this difeafe, as far as die could recoi- 
led!, was all die had to Complain of ; doing the or- 
dinary work in a farmer’s houfe, till Odtober 1748 : 
Then was feiz’d with pain univerfally, attended with 
feveridi fymptoms. Thus die continued fome weeks-, 
after which the pain was chiedy confined to her thighs 
and legs, but not increafed by external preffure: 
That, in September 1749, die broke her leg, as die 
was wa’king from the bed to her chair, without fall- 
ing down, and heard the bones fnap. The fradture 
was properly treated, and regard had to her indifpo- 
dtion ; but no callus was generated ; the bones growing 
dexible from the knee to the ancle in a few months ; 
did thofe of her other leg. Soon after, thofe of 
as 
her thighs were vifibly affedled in the like manner. 
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