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wound in my uncle Toby's groin, which he received at the siege of Namur, rendering him unfit for the service, it was thought expedient he should return to England, in order, if possible, to be set to rights.

He was four years totally confined,—part of it to his bed, and all of it to his room; and in the course of his cure, which was all that time in hand, suffer'd unspeakable miseries,—owing to a succession of exfoliations from the oss pubis, and the outward edge of that part of the coxendix called the oss illeum,—both which bones were dismally crush'd, as much by the irregularity of the stone, which I told you was broke off the pa-