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Being obliged to go abroad after (ix 

 weeks, I put on a pair of flioea with he""ls 

 about two inches high, and applied the 

 machine, which I am juft no\v to defcribe, 

 in the day time, inllead of the former 

 bandage ; which, however, was always 

 put on at night, for a month more. 



Th e new machine, fig. 6. v^ns a piece 

 of fleel, the middle fhalk of which A, is 

 narrow but llrong: The ends Bli, are 

 thin, broad, and concave, adapted to the 

 convexity of the foot and forepart of the 

 leg. Ihree ftapples CCC, Hand 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 flalk. All the 

 fteel, except the dapples, was covered with 

 chammoy leather ; and the concavities of 

 BB were well buffed, as the fofter rupture- 

 bands commonly are. 



After I had put on my fhoes and 

 flocklngs, one end of this machine was 

 put on the broad of my foot, nearer the 

 toes than the buckle of the fiioe ; and 

 the other end was placed on the forepart 

 of the leg : Then one ribband, or a thong 

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