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band directed, in confideration of the dilferent attach- 
ment of the mufeJes, Thefe were then carefully dif- 
fedted from the periojieiun^ and drawn up ^^'itli the re- 
traftor, as I formerly deferibed; fo that after the v.fe of 
the faw, the end of the bone was lodged full two 
inches in the mufclesrn. This manner of operation 
lucceeded to our wdlli ; leaving a flat, even Hump, which 
vvas completely cicatrized in lefs than two months; and 
with but little exfoliation from the bones, as Mr. re- 
vans informed me: fince that, he affured me, that it 
was the beH Hump he had ever feen, w'hich he aferibed 
to the manner of amputating, and the treatment after- 
wards. 
The following method in this cafe was ufed to keep 
down the teguments and mufcles, during the cure of 
the Hump, which I have pra6lifed more than forty years, 
jmuch to rny own fatisfadlion, and the approbation of 
many of my brethren. As foon as the tenHon is over, 
and the wmund well digeHed, I apply a circular plaHer, 
moderately adhefive, four or five inches broad, wdth great 
exadliiefs, near to the edge of the wound; and then 
(h) See Chapter upon Amputations in my Cafes and Remarks in Surgeiy, 
nedit. 2.; and what M. Louis fays upon this fubjeft, in the Mem. de I’Acad. 
Roy. de Chirurgle, tom. II. etIV. In the latter of which, this eminent furgeon 
mentions hk having had compreffion fuccefsfully made upon the crural artery in 
tlie groin, in fome amputations that he performed, where there was not room to 
apply the tourniquet to the thigh. The celebrated M. petit, many years ago, 
preferved the life of a gentleman, by inventing a machine to ferve fuch a purpofe, 
on account of a haemorrhage, twenty-one days after having had his thigh ampu- 
Xated higher up than ordinary. 
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