the Head of the Os Humeri. 9 
the other pulling the head of the humerus dire&ly 
towards me. After guarding the great artery againft the , 
action of the faw, by introducing a piece of pafte-board 
under the bone, I feparated it acrofs, as Mr. white directs, 
as low down as I poffibly could to prevent an exfoliation. 
The lofs of blood was very trifling. After drefling the 
wound very fuperficially, I took particular care that the 
artery was not prefled upon by the bandages; and ad- 
vifed, when the inflammation fubfided, and a good di- 
geftion came on, that his arm fhould always be clrefled 
when the body was e refit, and fufpended a little from it, 
with the fore arm a little bent: this was accordingly 
done. In a few days after the operation, he got up, and 
continued to fit up the day through ever after. He had 
a cold infufion of the Peruvian bark with the weak fpirit 
of vitriol ordered him. In confequence of his very re- 
duced habit of body, his fhoulder was long in curing, 
A fmall exfoliation took place. The cure, I fancy, was 
alfo much retarded by the difeafed foot, which ftill con- 
tinued very bad; the man being fo exceedingly terrified 
by the former operation, that he would not buffer us to 
do any thing to any purpofe to it. 
I faw him about three months after the accident. The 
wound was nearly cicatrized ; but the oflification was not 
fo far advanced as I expected it would have been, the 
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