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So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (cæteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wound in the knee———or

Whether the pain of a wound in the knee is not greater than the pain of a wound in the groin———are points which to this day remain unsettled.

CHAP. XX.

The anguish of my knee, continued the corporal, was excessive in itself; and the uneasiness of the cart, with the roughness of the roads which were terribly cut up—making bad still worse—every step was death to me: so that with the loss of blood, and the want