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4o her any good; but that, far from relieving her, 
they rather made her worfe, and her difeafe became 
the more infupportable ; and that fhe had taken a 
refolution to undergo any thing to be freed from 
a diforder which had afflidted her for fixteen years. 
Having confulted Mr. Fabre, an able phyfician of 
that place, we were both of opinion, that jflie could 
not be cured without an operation, which I accord- 
ingly proceeded to as follows : I took off the tumor 
intirely to the periofteum, but did not lay the bone 
bare ; for I thought it fufficient for a complete cure 
to take away all the callofities ; but I was midaken ; 
for, inftead of the profpedl of a fucceeding cure, I 
was unhappy enough to fee the fwelling increafe, and 
the wound leem larger than before. I ufed in vain 
all the remedies commonly thought of in fuch cafes- 
I fcarified the edges of the ulcer, to bring it to fup * 
puration ; but it became thereby more hard and cal- 
lous than before the operation, and much more pain- 
ful. Upon which 1 refolved to cut away all that 
remained of the tumor, with the periodeum, which 
appeared very much fwelled. This fecond operation 
had fo much fuccefs, that the fwelling, and every 
other bad fymptom, difappeared almoft fuddcnly ; 
and in three days the wound looked red and very 
well, without any pain, and the cicatrix was per- 
fedly form’d on the 15th day from the operation 
without any fenfible exfoliation of the bone, or the 
lead deformity or daring of the eye. She' has re- 
mained very well ever fmce ; for I faw her the i oth 
of Augud iy4.j, at Carcadone, in perfedt health ; 
and the cicatrix of the part very even. 
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