5c8 ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 



obfervable flu iveling in my left leg where 

 the tendo y^chillis was broken : Whereas 

 moft of the ether gentlemen have fome 

 of thofe uneaiineiTes, and feveral hav3 all 

 of them. On this account, I think it my 

 duty, for the benefit of future patients, to 

 make my method of management as pu- 

 blic as I can ; which probably will be befl 

 (lone, by coriimunicating it to your fo* 

 ciety. 



When my tendon was torn, it cracked 

 as loud as if I had fuddenly broke a nut 

 •under my heel ; which the company be- 

 lieved had happened : And I had fuch a 

 fenfation as made me imagine that the 

 het'l of my llioe had ftruck a hole in the 

 floor ; which is the feeling that feveral 

 have had as well as I : While others com- 

 plain as if they had received a finart 

 fl^roke with a fl:one or cane on the part.— 

 I fufpeded immediately what the cafe 

 was ; and therefore, after feeling where 

 the hollo\,v was, between the ends of the 

 broken tendon, I took the left foot in my 

 right hand, with which I extended the 

 fcot flrongly j and, as foon as 1 was put 



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