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tisfactory cure not ensue ; in such instance 

 the remedy will most assuredly prove worse 

 than the disease, and there can be no doubt 

 but a prudent or compassionate man will 

 much rather submit to a slight and almost 

 insignificant inconvenience, than encounter 

 by the attempt an evil of much greater mag- 

 nitude. 



Should, by any mismanagement in the 

 operation, or want of dexterity in the opera- 

 tor, the tendon be at all injured, lamenei^s 

 may be the inevitable consequence ; should 

 'the edges of the separated parts not display 

 a tendency to union, but, on the contrary^ 

 become disposed to foulness, engendering 

 fungus, it may degenerate to dc fistulous iwund, 

 and be ultimately productive of infinite 

 trouble and considerable expense. These 

 attendant evils upon the experiment thuS 

 pointed out and taken into consideration^ it . 

 will then become worthy the attention of the 

 owner, whether the gentler methods of cure 

 before prescribed, with every possible por- 

 tion of rest, (and when used, that use ex- 

 ceedingly moderate) will not prove the most 

 advantageous and least dangerous system 



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