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tained the matter, and extracted fome fplinters of 
bone ; I then applied a proper bandage, and after 
the reparation of feveral bony fragments, the cure 
was compleated, at lead: a good cicatrice was 
formed. 
He returned to his work, which was then going 
forward at Rouen, and was employed in carrying 
wood for the conftruCtion of flat-bottomed boats. 
His limbs in general were flrong enough to fupport 
thefe loads ; but his left arm, in which he had re- 
ceived the wound, was of little ufe to him, being 
fhorter and weaker than the other. 
On the 15th of March, 1760, being feized with 
a pleurify and peripneumony, he was again brought 
into our hofpital. After his recovery from this dif- 
eale, an abicefs was formed in the injured arm, 
which made an opening for itfelf in the fore- part, 
larger than a bullet. The arm was deprived of all 
motion, flrength, and connection ; and the callus of 
the former fracture appeared to be entirely deftroyed 
by this frefh accident. In this Rate of the cafe, the 
patient being brought from the infirmary into the 
ward defigned for wounded perfons, I pafled my 
probe into the wound, and found the bone of the 
arm bare, and carious to a very great extent : the 
middle of this carious part was rotten and totally de- 
ftroyed throughout its whole fubflance. Anodine 
cataplalms were applied, to abate the inflammation 
and fwelling, which attended the ulcer. 
On the 15th of April I began to put in execution 
the plan which I had fixed upon for his cure ; the 
firit intention of which was, to lay bare the carious 
part ol the bone in its whole length, which was rather 
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