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such cases, than' any promised expectation 

 of permanent rehef from the mode of treat- 

 ment most appHcable to the predominant 

 symptoms of either, which will nevertheless 

 be accurately explained. 



-CASE 



Of A 



PUNCTURED TENDON. 



In the month of August, 1788, I was ap- 

 plied to by a character of great eminence, 

 to give my opinion upon one of the first 

 hunters in England, for which he had been 

 repeatedly offered a hundred and twenty 

 guineas. Upon my arrival, I found the 

 horse labouring under the most excruciat- 

 ing and indescribable agony, totally unable 

 to set his off hind foot to the ground, and^ 

 from the highest possible condition, very 

 much emaciated in a few days with the ex- 

 tremity of pain. Investigating by inquiry 

 the cause of complaint, I wo^ informed that 

 a student in surgery^ from one of the hos-* 



