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-eafineffes, and feveral have all’ of them. ‘On 
‘this account; J think it my duty, for the be- 
nefit of future patients, to make my method 
of management: as public vas).I can; which 
probably will be beft done,::-by communica- 
‘ting it to your fociety, f 
When my tendon was torn, it cracked-as 
loud as if ] had fuddenly broke:a nut under 
my heel; which the company believed had 
happened: and 1 had fuch) a fenfation. as 
made me imagine that the heel of my fhoe 
had ftruck a hole in the floor; which is the 
feeling that feveral have had as well as I: 
while others complain as if they had recei- 
ved a {mart {troke with a {tone or cane on the 
part. I fufpe&ted immediately what the 
cafe’-was; and therefore, after feeling where 
the hollow. was, between the ends of the 
broken tendon, I took the left foot in my 
right-hand, with which I extended the foot 
{trongly; and, as foon as I was put in a feat, 
prefied down the calf of my leg with my o- 
ther hand: in which pofture I kept them 
till Meff. Yobz Douglas and Yames Ruffel far- 
geons of this place came ; and, after being 
fatisfied of the rupture, by preffing their 
fingers into the hollow between the two ends 
of 
