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was fattened by the bandages commonly ufed in frac- 
tures. 
On the 15th of May, the twenty-ninth day after 
the operation, the wound having filled up very fatt, 
the arm appeared to have a fort of firmnefs, that the 
mufcles alone were incapable of giving it ; and on the 
30th of the fame month it had acquired a degree of 
folidity, which was nearly equal to the hardnefs of 
bone ; for it was ttrong enough to fupport itfelf, 
and yielded very little to the pretture that was made 
upon it ; but the patient was ttill unable to make any 
ufe of it, till the fifty-fifth day after the operation, 
at which time he began to move it a little. 
It was fcarce pottible that fo remarkable a cafe 
fhould not be attended with fome accidents, in 
the courfe of the cure ; fo that, on the 1 6th of June, 
I was not at all furprized at the appearance of a puf- 
tule on the upper part of the fear, from which there 
was an oozing of matter. On the next day I patted a 
probe into this opening, which entered with fome dif- 
ficulty the length of an inch ; but I did not find any 
fplinters of bone, which I expected to meet with. 
On the 1 8th of June, I made a large opening in 
this part, and extracted a point of bone, which feem- 
ed to have fhot out in a very particular manner to- 
wards this puftule, and might probably have contri- 
buted, by its irritation, to have produced this fittula. 
On the 19th of June, I took away the remains of 
this bony fubttance, fituated underneath the above 
fittula, and which was but fiightly attached to the 
neighbouring foft parts ; after which the cure of this 
wound was compleated in fifteen days. 
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