PHYSICAL “snp LITERARY. 455 
- Some weeks after the accident, I began to 
pour cold water on my leg and foot, caufing 
them to be well rubbed immediately after ; 
but the water, inftead of ftrengthening the 
member, as J expected it would have done, 
made it cold and weak ; for which reafon I 
foon ‘forebore ‘the ufe of it, -and caufed the 
leg’ to be rubbed twice a-day ftrongly, with 
unguentum altheae, or fome fuch greefy ftuff, 
to protect the {kin from excoriation by the 
friction. This manoeuvre was continued till 
I began to employ the limb freely. 
Beinc obliged to go abroad after fix weeks, 
J put on'a pair of fhoes with heels about two 
inches high, and applied the machine, which 
Iam juft now to defcribe, in the day time, 
inftead of the former bandage; which, how- 
ever, was.always put on at night, for a month 
more. | 
‘THE new machine, fig. 6. was a piece of 
fteel, the middle ftalk of which A, is _nar-. 
row but ftrong: the ends BB, are thin, broad 
and concave, adapted to the convexity of the 
foot and forepart of the leg. Three ftapples 
CCC, ftand up from the forepart of the fteel, 
one being in.the middle of each of the broad 
ends, and the third in the middle of the 
ftalk, 
