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fary, and frequently attended with little danger or 
inconvenience when only part of a limb is removed ; 
yet where the whole is loft, the danger is greatly in- 
creafed, and the lofs irreparable. 
I have frequently performed this operation on dead 
fubjeefts, and w^here the parts had not been difeafed, 
and never found any difficulty ; and from the. diflec- 
tion of the parts had no reafon to doubt of fuccefs in 
a living fubjedt, where the ligaments and mufcles arc 
more fupple, and the matter, by inflnuating itfelf be- 
twixt the bone and integuments, has made lefs diflTec- 
.tion neceflary.* 
I have likewife, in a dead fubjedl, made an inciflon 
on the external flde of the hip joint, and continued the 
inciflon down below the ^x^2X trocharder , then cutting 
through the buffal ligament, and bringing the knee 
inwards, the upper head of the os fenioris was forced 
out of its focket, and eaflly fawxd off; and I have no 
doubt but this operation might be performed upon a 
living fubjedf with great proi'pedt of fuccefs. 
The Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris propofed 
for a prize queftion, Whether amputation of the 
thigh at its articulation with the os innominaium v/as 
ever advifeable : but was I under a neceflity of per- 
forming this operation, or that which I have been 
deferibing, I ftiould not hefitate a moment which to 
C. ¥/hite. 
TA B. I. F I G. I. 
That part of the bone which was fawed off. 
a. The head of the, bone corroded by the matter. 
F I G. 
