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XrX. Account of an OJJification of the \ thoracic DuB 
By Richard Browne Chefton, Surgeon to the Infirmary 
at Gloucefter; communicated by Mr. Henry Watfon, 
Surgeon to the Weftminfter HofpitaL 
Read April 20, 1780. 
TAMES JONES, twenty-two years of age, was ad- 
^ mitted into the Gloucefter Infirmary, June the 5th, 
1779, for very troublefome pains in his back and hip, 
which, from every circumftance of his defcription, were 
fuppofed rheumatic. 
Upon a particular examination a few days afterwards, 
the right hip was obferved to be fuller than it lhould be ; 
but the thigh feemed very little altered from its natural 
ftate. A blifter was applied over the joint, and the ufual 
anti-rheumatic remedies were prefcribed by the phyfi- 
cian under whofe care he was admitted. In about a fort- 
night he complained of a violent pain in his knee, for 
which another blifter was ordered to the head of the 
fibula. During this time he could move about the ward 
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