I Take the liberty of inclosing to you a case in surgery, which I
imagine is not very common. Marchetis indeed has an observation of the
same kind; and there are several others collected together by Mons.
Morand, in the second volume of the Memoires of the Royal Academy
of Surgery at Paris: but as I have not heard of that volume’s being
translated into English, and believe there is no observation of a
similar nature in the Philosophical Transactions, I beg the favour of
you to communicate it to the Royal Society, of which you are a Fellow;
and at the same time to make them an offer of the joint of the thumb,
with its adherent tendon, which you will receive at the same time with
this; hoping they will do me the honour of accepting it, as a testimony
(tho’ trifling) of my great esteem and respect for the most learned
Society in Europe. Your Friend Dr. Knox saw the patient dressed oftener
than once; and Mr. Thornhill, late Surgeon and Manmidwife in Bristol,
saw it when near healed.