Mr. orred’s Account of, See. 
7 
A FRIEND of mine, an ingenious furgeon, fettled at 
Tarporley, in this county, fent for me about the middle 
of laft month to fee a patient hf his, a gentleman’s fer- 
vant in that neighbourhood. This was a man of about 
forty years of age, who had much injured a good confti- 
tution by hard drinking before the following accident 
happened to him. 
From an injury received more than three years before 
the time I law him, by a fall from the top of a ladder, I 
found a fuppuration had taken place in the fhoulder 
joint. The matter had made its way through three final! 
openings ; one in the axilla , direCtly oppofite to the cavity 
of the joint ; the other two lower than the ftrong tendons 
of the peCtoral mufcle, and betwixt the deltoides and 
biceps mufcles. Upon introducing a probe into the joint 
by the upper orifice, I found the head of the os humeri 
exceedingly carious. A few weeks before I faw him, a col- 
lection of matter had formed upon his foot, I fuppofe from 
an abforption and tranflation from the fhoulder. Upon let- 
ting out the matter with a lancet, I found the metatarfal 
bones alfo very carious : with thefe fhocking complaints 
no wonder he was much enfeebled and reduced. As the 
difeafe in his fhoulder would evidently foon have put a 
period to his life without immediate relief, I propofed to 
him. 
