^12 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



The void between the two ends of the 

 divided tendon became infenfible in few- 

 days, except that a foftnefs was felt there, 

 more than any where elfe ; but this part 

 turned gradually thicker and harder, till a 

 ^not was formed in it, which one, in feeling 

 thro' the teguments, would have thought 

 to be a piece of cartilage, as large as 

 a middle fized plumb, which has greatly 

 decreafed, and become fofter, for fome 

 years pall ; fo that, at prefent, it is much 

 lefs perceptible than formerly. 



SoMK weeks after the accident, I be- 

 gan to pour cold water on my leg and 

 foot, caufing them to be well rubbed im- , 

 mediately after j but the water, inflead 

 x)f flrengthening the member, as I expecSl- 

 ed 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 un- 

 guentum altheae^ or fome fuch greefy fluff, 

 to prote(fl the fkin from excoriation by 

 the fridion. This manoeuvre was con- 

 tinued till I began to employ the limb 

 freely. 



