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XXXIII. Continuation of the Cafe of James Jones. By 
Richard Browne Chefton, Surgeon to the Gloucefter 
Infirmary. Communicated, in a Idetter to Mr. Henry 
Watfon, Surgeon to the Weftminfter Hofpital. ( See 
P- 3 2 3 *) 
Read November 1780, 
DEAR ‘SIR, 
T HAVE it at laft in my power to inform you of the 
■ ftate the bones of the pelvis appeared in after a ma- 
ceration of five months: for though by very feldom. 
changing the water, and keeping the veffel containing 
it rather in a warm place, I fuffered the higheft putre- 
faction to come on, it took up that fpace of time be- 
fore the foft parts were entirely deftroyed. 
In my account of the ftate in which I found the 
thoracic duel of the fame fubject, I mentioned my fuf- 
picions (from the only examination I then had it in my 
power to make) that a confiderable part of the fub- 
ftance of the os innominatum was deftroyed or abforbed ; 
but maceration has cleared up this circumftance, and 
fhewn, that the depth the probe entered, and the gritty 
reliftance 
