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of confiderable pain for about four hours afterwards, 
when he grew eafy, and fo continued till the fecond 
day after the operation, when the knee became a 
good deal painful : there was no difcharge fr om the 
wound. Upon enquiry I found he had not been at 
flool for three days, which occationed the admi- 
niflrring of a clyflrer, by which ftools were procured, 
and the pain became confiderably abated. On the 
third day from the operation there appeared a conii- 
derable difcharge, and his knee was quite eafy, 
which continued fo till the fixth day, when the dif- 
charge was much abated. The pain returned and con- 
tinued till the eighth day, when the difcharge re- 
turned again, and the pain was removed. Obferv- 
ing from this time, that the difcharge encreafed, 
and fo continued eafy till the eleventh day, which 
proceeded altogether from within the joint, I dilated 
the wound, that the matter might have a more 
ready iflue. This anfwered my expectation, and the 
patient continued eafy till the fifteenth day, when he 
complained of a return of pain. Upon examination, 
I perceived the outfide of the knee was fwelled, 
and upon preffure I difcovered a fluctuation ; which 
induced me to make an incilion thro' the integu- 
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ments and capfular ligament, on this fide ; which, I 
difcovered, by the ufe of the probe, that palled under 
the knee-pan, to have a communication with the 
wound on the infide. From this time the patient 
went on very well, without any farther complaints j 
and in about twelve weeks from the firfl operation, 
he became perfectly well, and drill continues fo* 
without any other complaint than that of a fmall 
degree 
