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CLASS XIL 



MALLENDERS, SALLENDERS, LAMPAS, 

 CURBS, QUITTORS, and RINGBONES. 



MALLENDERS 



Are cracks, or oozings, fituate direftly upon 

 the back part of the knee joint, occafioned, in 

 g€3aeral, more by negled: than any cafual or 

 conftitiitional defe<5t in the fubjefl:. The mat- 

 ter they difcharge is, in fome, thin and acrimo- 

 nious, in others it forms a glutinous accumu- 

 lation in its oozing, and bears the appearance 

 of fmall fcabs or fcurfy efchars upon the fur- 

 face, conftituting a want of flexibility, or feem- 

 ing lamenefs in the joint. The firft flep to 

 cure IS, to have the parts well waihed with 

 foap and w^arm water (forming a fubftantial 

 lather), repeating the operation night and 

 morning till the efchars relax from their 



rigidity. 



