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HUMAN BONES BECOME PLIABLE.
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increasing till they snap, and then goes off in a few days,
and the bones unite in five, six, or seven weeks. She has
now a fresh pain seized one arm, that she expects will ter-
minate in a broken bone. This poor woman has had eight
fractures within a year and a half, seven of which befel her
in the last twelve months ; and all without any external
cause to attribute them to. The curious, humane, and cha-
ritable, have a singular opportunity of exercising their phi-
lanthropy, by inquiring of Mr. Samuel Thompson, of
Charsfield, who will direct them to this cottage of hopeless
misery and want.
To prevent the disbelief that usually accompanies ano-
nymous singularities, I take the liberty of signing my name
and place.
W. GOODWIN, Surgeon,
August 5, 1785. Earl Soham, Suffolk.
Gentleman's Magazine, September, 1785. p. 677.
A letter dated Wickham Market, December 26, 1786,
says,—Mary Bradcock, of Dallinghoe, (whose case is re-
lated above) died on the 19th instant. I was sent for the
next day, to examine the state of her bones, which were be-
come soft and flexible, like cartilage; as I could with the
greatest ease, bend her limbs into any shape. I removed a
portion of the radius from her right arm, in which I in-
cluded a part where a fracture had formerly been. The
bone was become so soft, as to be divisible with ease by
the knife. The part where the callus had formed, was
equally soft and flexible with the other parts. This change
in the bones has been mentioned and accounted for by the
anatomists. The above unhappy sufferer has had several
fractures since the publication of her case ; and at the time
of her decease, was in the sixth month of her pregnancy.
Your’s, &c. W. Salmon, Surgeon.
Supplement to Gent. Mag. 1786. p. 1141.
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increasing till they snap, and then goes off in a few days,
and the bones unite in five, six, or seven weeks. She has
now a fresh pain seized one arm, that she expects will ter-
minate in a broken bone. This poor woman has had eight
fractures within a year and a half, seven of which befel her
in the last twelve months ; and all without any external
cause to attribute them to. The curious, humane, and cha-
ritable, have a singular opportunity of exercising their phi-
lanthropy, by inquiring of Mr. Samuel Thompson, of
Charsfield, who will direct them to this cottage of hopeless
misery and want.
To prevent the disbelief that usually accompanies ano-
nymous singularities, I take the liberty of signing my name
and place.
W. GOODWIN, Surgeon,
August 5, 1785. Earl Soham, Suffolk.
Gentleman's Magazine, September, 1785. p. 677.
A letter dated Wickham Market, December 26, 1786,
says,—Mary Bradcock, of Dallinghoe, (whose case is re-
lated above) died on the 19th instant. I was sent for the
next day, to examine the state of her bones, which were be-
come soft and flexible, like cartilage; as I could with the
greatest ease, bend her limbs into any shape. I removed a
portion of the radius from her right arm, in which I in-
cluded a part where a fracture had formerly been. The
bone was become so soft, as to be divisible with ease by
the knife. The part where the callus had formed, was
equally soft and flexible with the other parts. This change
in the bones has been mentioned and accounted for by the
anatomists. The above unhappy sufferer has had several
fractures since the publication of her case ; and at the time
of her decease, was in the sixth month of her pregnancy.
Your’s, &c. W. Salmon, Surgeon.
Supplement to Gent. Mag. 1786. p. 1141.