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CASE 



OF A 



PUNCTURED OR LACERATED TENDON. 



In the month of November 17^9? I re- 

 ceived a letter of solicitation from a gentle- 

 man very high in a certain royal establish- 

 ment, requesting my immediate attendance 

 in London to give my opinion upon a horse 

 that, from a mere superficial defect, and cojn- 

 plicated experiments, was rendered a perfect 

 cripple, without hope or expectation of cure. 

 In such predicament, it became a determined 

 decision with the proprietor, that my per- 

 sonal investigation should conclude the scene 

 of anxiety, by dooming the subject to im- 

 mediate death, or producing a plausible ray of 

 hope for his recovery. 



Upon my arrival in town, and introduction, 

 to the owner, I received [information^ that 

 about three months before, a kind of flatu- 

 lent or fluctuating tumour appeared upon 

 the inside of the near hough, displaying great 



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