452 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
of the tendon, they applied comprefles, and a 
bended board on the upper part of my foot 
and fore part of my leg, which they kept, as 
near as they could, in a ftraight line, by a 
tight bandage made with a long roller.—This 
dreffing became foon too uneafy for me to 
bear, and the board was liable to fhuffle, 
whatever care was taken in the application 
of the bandage: therefore I changed it for 
the following compound one, confifting of 
two pieces. (See TAB, viii.) 
Fig. 2. is a foot-fock or flipper A, of 
double quilted tiking; from the heel of 
which B, the quilted ftrap C, is of fuch a 
length as to come up above the calf. 
Fig. 3. A ftrong quilted calf-piece L, with 
pye holes MM on each fide, through which 
a lace, fig. 4. 1s to be pafled; and, with a 
buckle N, fo placed on its back-part, that, 
when the lacing was on the outfide of the 
leg, the buckle was in the middle of the 
lower part. Two rows of pyeholes are here 
reprefented on one fide, either of which is 
to be ufed according to the thicknefs of the 
leg. 
Havinc 
