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« unconfirmed, I re-applied the Bandage, which rc- 
“ mained on five Weeks longer. 
“ Upon a fecond Examination, I found, to my 
“ Surprize, and the great Uneafinefs of the Patient 
« and Family, the Callus as foft and yielding as 
“ before. I therefore could not help thinking this 
“ Cafe to be fimilar to two Cafes which Hildanus 
“ gives the Hiftory of from his own Practice : For, 
“ as the Patient at this time was about five Months 
“ gone with Child, Nature determined thofe nutri- 
“ tious and agglutinating Juices, which were necef- 
“ fary to form and confolidate the Callus, into a 
“ different Chanel ; viz. to the Support and In- 
“ creafe of the Foetus. As a C-onfequence of this > 
“ Opinion, I contrived a Bandage made of Velvet, 
“ with four thin Blades of Steel, a Quarter of an Inch 
« broad, and feven Inches long, which were covered 
“ with Velvet, and fixed to the Inftde of the Velvet 
“ Bandage s and to the Bandage itfelf I fixed four 
“ fmall Buckles, with their correfponding Straps. 
<e The Bandage thus contrived, and buckled on the, 
<c Arm, refembled a Muffitie, and was wore with the 
** greateft Convcniency, keeping the Arm in a flrait 
“ Diredlion, for four Months longer. In the mean 
“ time, the Patient was made eafy by the encourage- 
“ ing Hopes I gave her, that, after her Labour, the 
“ Oeconomy of Nature would be more immediately 
“ diredled to the Recovery of the Ufe of her Arm. 
“ And, indeed, lo it turned out: For the Callus 
“ remained unconfirmed, her Arm ufelefs, and at 
“ particular times painful, till within nine Days of 
“ her Delivery j when, all on a fudden, fine ac- 
“ quaint^d the Colonel, that her Arm was quite 
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