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Received November 28, 1769. 
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XII. A Letter from Mr. Thomas Woolcomb, 
Surgeon, to the late DoSior Hu x ham, 
F. R. S. on the Cafe of a Boy , who died 
of a Gun foot Wound , and communicated 
by the Rev.]. Cor. Huxham, A. M. F. R . S. 
S I R, 
Read March i } TA K E the liberty of troubling you 
1//0 " X with the following remarkable cafe in 
furgery, which, fome months fince, fell under my 
infpeCtion, as I judge it will not be wholly unac- 
ceptable to a perfon lb eminent for his abilities in the 
medical art, and fo diftinguilhed for a nice difeern- 
ment into, and invelfigation of, the more remote 
caufes of morbid appearances - } a few of which, that 
occurred in the preient cafe, feem not a little unac- 
countable. 
Dec. 17th, 1763, in the forenoon, I was feilt for 
to the affiftance of John Kitt, a lad of about 15 
years of age, who had juft received a confiderable 
wound by the unexpected going off of a gun loaded 
w’ith fmall fhot, held near his arm. I found the 
fhot, by being fo near, had acted altogether as a flug, 
had lacerated much, and made a pretty large per- 
foration 
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