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An account of a case in which the upper head of the os humeri was sawed off, a large portion of the bone afterwards exfoliated, and yet the entire motion of the limb was preserved.
Publication Details
Phil. Trans., (1769), 59, 39-46. 1770 CE.
First recorded excision of the head of the humerus.
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| Entry Number | #4437 |
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