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of hazardous experiments, is much more the 

 motive of inducement to recite fuch cafes, than 

 any promifed expecflation of permanent relief 

 from the mode of treatment moft appHcable 

 to the predominant fymptoms of either, which 

 will neverthelefs be accurately explained. 



o F A 



PUNCTURED TENDON. 



In the month of x^uguft, 1788, I was ap- 

 plied to by a character of the firft eminence, to 

 give my opinion upon one of the firft hunters 

 in England, for v/hich he had been repeatedly 

 offered a hundred and twenty guineas. Upon 

 my arrival I found the horfe labouring under 

 the moft excruciating and indefcribable agony, 

 totally unable to fet his off hind foot to th^ 

 ground, and, from the higheft poiiible condi- 

 tion, very much emaciated in a few days with 

 the extremity of pain. Inveftigating by in- 

 7 quiry 



