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XXXVIII. Account of a Woman enjoying 
the Ufe of her right Arm after the Head 
of the Os Humeri was cut away . By 
James Bent, Surgeon , at Newcaflle, 
Communicated by Hr, Hunter. 
Redde, April 28, Ifc yfTR. white, of Mancheffer, in an 
I774 ' JL V JL hiftory of an operation performed 
upon the humerus , publifhed in his treatife, entitled. 
Surgical Cafes , with Remarks , and read before the 
Boyal Society, Feb. 9, 1769; aflerts, that he fawed 
off the upper head of that bone ; and that his 
patient enjoyed the entire ufe of the joint. As the 
fuppofition of the head of the bone, with its liga- 
ments, &c. being regenerated, muff appear a little 
marvellous, and may prevent fome from paying 
that attention to the operation, that it certainly merits, 
I flatter myfelf the following cafe will not be 
unacceptable to the Royal Society, as it proves, 
that the operation is not only pra&icable, but ad- 
vifeable; and, at the fame time, points out the na- 
ture of Mr. white’s miftake. In plate VI. fig. 1. 
he has given a drawing of the bone he cut off; the 
bare infpedtion of which is fuflicient to convince any 
one, that it could be only the body of the humerus 
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