Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1813-03-01
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Mn Shirley,

Mn Shirley.
Ibid not think of troubling you again, bur
a, Do6 Porter ha. told the public tha =" have
not eltahllihed one point GU, OF al my mighty
declarations,' have been induced 10 take that
method which ought to have been coniented
to at fri, aud which puts /, beyond doubt,
hope by this time Doct p. will be convinced,
tina, having commenced my iuit, have alfo
clearly made out my case ana more partieu-
larry tina, part which he lays deferves no other
notice than that of contempt and pity hope
he will have that mantle Of sb"hy f,om 6e phil
which, in thi, cafe neither asked or wihed
for only with that thofe few who in erelt
,hemie'ves in thi, controversy, may carefully
trace his ahertious, aud compare them with The
Aaie in which the thigh and back was found
on INFECTION, and which be never fuppoled
would appear againli him How has he chafes
on the back been reprefeated aud the leg
fad TO be D"'dfa;gbf and P,Org, wounds heal.
ed, Cc The fanny and neighbors were told
to the iai he was getting bette, This accounts
for Doa Porter, laying tina the man and his
wife neve' repented that it wa, not amputasd
they had no doubt of his getting we'll with
it on, Until very few days before hi. death.
when Dod Cummings told them il was impof-
hble he could live many days-There are two
certificates left at your Office, tending to prove,
that by lifting the leg the patients thigh bed
together, 70 as &c h,m up and fit him in a
chair. This though, ertraordinary-but i,
can now be reconci!ed: the two parts of the
thigh bone, we will fuppofe | 8 niche, in length
one part running by the other inches, will,
with the help ola light bandAge elicit The
Doctor tells us the limb had become 10 Orong
tina, he lief, off the bandage He ihoud have
faid the eIquifte pain which il occshoned the
patient, obliged him to take it off for bind ny
fharp ragged bone againit found one with
number of de,ached lieees, aud conlining4
large quantity of matter believe was never
attempted before. I recollect, that. in ons OF
hi' pieces he tays, that ampu,a,ion would not
have anfwered, bec,ufe we muft have fawed
off the under portion Of the bone as well as
the upper, in having run up 70 far beyond the
latter I, na little 6ngular that il never &C.
surred TO him, that, on dividing the skin and
mulc'es, that part of The lower bone which
had fh1t by the upper or sound lone, would
have come away at once. There was little Il
any need of law to have effected a eure-all
might have been done with knife an llga-
ture for the artery have fad that in cafe I
fhould find the thigh and eg in the ftuation
W ieh Doct Porter ha. 70 frequently repreien-
ted it, would ak bis pardon. But 70 differ
en-, is the cafe, that l have not a word of all
have faid. TO re,raa. On the contrary, much
more nigh, be added ,oprove the faacy If his
s1ertons, did time permit COFFIN
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THE undersigned, at the requeft of Dr. Cot
hn, on Thuriday lait attended an examination
of the body of the late John Evan.-upon
careful dlfsetlon OF the wounded limb, the
following appearances were eIh,bited.-The
thigh bose was Fl actured very obl'qaely by
grape tho, paGing thro it about one third from
it, head-rhe upper portion ihaaered within
two inche. Of the fmal trochahter-the lower
part wa. drawn up 70 as TO projed at The hip
-leveral detached pieces of bone were found
in the affects, which extended from the hip to
the knee-ths limb was felracted by the bones
overlapping each other, asout Fix inches, there
was no appearan of their ever having been
brought into their natural place Gnce the
wound. nor of any approximation towards
a cure having been made-fome flight union
between the two portions mght have taken
place before death. while in the relraeted and
unnatural 6tuation, they retained, as a form
ing caous feemed to evince tho at tn. eI
animation they were wholly feparsiea--There
were foms excoriatops from ulcers upon the