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penfe too eafily with the Severity of a neccflarv Ex- 
amination, it may be imagined, that they have con- 
fidered as real Succefs, what was in Truth only a 
Phantom. 
It remains to fay, that in thefe Refearches I have 
coveted Truth, only for her own fake > and have no 
Intereft: in convincing thofe who may think proper 
Bill obftinately to believe, what has been publifhed 
concerning lined Tubes, elc&rical Purgations, inflan- 
taneous Cures, fyc. I do not pretend to make any 
of my Opinion, but thofe, who, having read with- 
out Prejudice what I have here related, may find 
themfelves touched by my Reafons : But if after 
this there can be any one, upon whom the Love of 
the Marvellous can make a victorious Impreflion, I 
fhall not think ill of them, if they embrace 
Opinions oppofite to mine $ Qui ^uk decipi, de- 
cipatur. • ■ 
XXL An extraordinary Cafe of a Fra&ure 
of the Arm ; communicated by Mr. John 
Freke, F. R. S. Surgeon to St-. Bartholo- 
mew’s Hofpital. 
JWApril 5 .^| E following Extraft of a Letter 
from Mr. John Barde t Surgeon, in 
New Torky having been communicated to me, I 
thought the Cafe fo curious, and to have been 
treated in fo skilful and regular a manner, as to be 
worthy of being laid before this learned Society. 
T. Freke. 
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