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foratlon through the biceps and Ira chi ecus interims 
muicles, had bared the os humeri , and in fine pene- 
trated quite through the arm from below upwards. 
By the time 1 arrived (which was almolt imme- 
diately after the accident) I found little or no hae- 
morrhage, which made me hope the humeral artery 
had not been divided. On examining the wound, 
and finding no extraneous fubftances lodged, but the 
pafiage quite pervious to the probe ; I drefied up with 
dry lint, digeftive, &c. ordering moreover the whole 
limb to be wrapped up in a warm poultice made 
with oatmeal, dale beer, and a good deal of oil. 
Returning in the evening. I found the patient 
tolerably eafy, but applying my fingers to the artery 
of the wrift of the fame hand, was not a little alarmed 
to find I could perceive not the lead pulfation. It 
was but too eafy to apprehend the caufe of it ; that 
in all probability the artery was divided, and if fo, 
the limb perhaps would not be faved. 
I made my relation to the friends accordingly. 
However, as no threatening fymptoms attended, I 
was willing to fee, whether, if the artery was di- 
vided, the blood might not, as after the operation of 
the aneurifm, find a pafiage by the collateral branches, 
and thereby the circulation be kept up. I was apt 
alfo to think, as there had been no haemorrhage at 
the. wound, that it might not be divided, but the 
courfe of the circulation be impeded only by fome 
fpafmodic conftridtion, which pofiibly by the morn- 
ing might relax and give way ; at all events, 1 judged 
it moft prudent to wait. 1 drefied up therefore 
with a little warm digeflive, after proper fomenting 
the limb, and ordered the cataplalm to be renewed 
as 
