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REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCES OF DISEASE.
with a little digested pus. Some of these breaches have
healed up of themselves; one small orifice in each elbow
continues to run.
In March, 1758, he was seized with the like pain and
swelling in his right ancle, where such another bony substance
soon grew as in his arms. This bony substance has shot up
from his ancle, both in the inward and outward side of the
right leg, half way up to the knee; and the like bony sub-
stance has, in the inward side, shot down from the pan of the
knee, eight inches along the shin bone, and is daily increas-
ing ; so that he walks with much pain and difficulty, and after
resting in his walk grows very lame. The person is of a
very thin habit of body, and is in size five feet nine inches;
somewhat inclined to an hectic, though he has no cough.
The above-mentioned William Carey was inspected and
closely examined, as to all the above particulars, at Castle
Caldwell, in the county of Fermanagh, the 1st day of March,
1759, by us
Shelburne.
James Caldwell.
This is exactly my case, William Henry.
William Carey.
The Rev. William Henry sends a further account to Lord
Cadogan, since the above, signed by him, and dated Dublin,
May 24, 1759-
MY LORD,
I have now standing by me, William Carey, the young
man, of the ossification of whose limbs I had the honour,
formerly, to acquaint your Lordship; and now, in obedience
to your commands, give an account of the case since that
time.
I had sent him in March last to Mercer’s Hospital in this
city. After examining his case, the physicians and surgeons
concluded, that the only probable chance to prevent the pro-
gress of the ossification, and to remove the evil already ef-
with a little digested pus. Some of these breaches have
healed up of themselves; one small orifice in each elbow
continues to run.
In March, 1758, he was seized with the like pain and
swelling in his right ancle, where such another bony substance
soon grew as in his arms. This bony substance has shot up
from his ancle, both in the inward and outward side of the
right leg, half way up to the knee; and the like bony sub-
stance has, in the inward side, shot down from the pan of the
knee, eight inches along the shin bone, and is daily increas-
ing ; so that he walks with much pain and difficulty, and after
resting in his walk grows very lame. The person is of a
very thin habit of body, and is in size five feet nine inches;
somewhat inclined to an hectic, though he has no cough.
The above-mentioned William Carey was inspected and
closely examined, as to all the above particulars, at Castle
Caldwell, in the county of Fermanagh, the 1st day of March,
1759, by us
Shelburne.
James Caldwell.
This is exactly my case, William Henry.
William Carey.
The Rev. William Henry sends a further account to Lord
Cadogan, since the above, signed by him, and dated Dublin,
May 24, 1759-
MY LORD,
I have now standing by me, William Carey, the young
man, of the ossification of whose limbs I had the honour,
formerly, to acquaint your Lordship; and now, in obedience
to your commands, give an account of the case since that
time.
I had sent him in March last to Mercer’s Hospital in this
city. After examining his case, the physicians and surgeons
concluded, that the only probable chance to prevent the pro-
gress of the ossification, and to remove the evil already ef-