432 SUPPLEMENT, 



quiry the caufe of complaint, I was informed 

 that a ftudent in furgery, from one of the 

 hofpitals, had lately been upon a vifit to the 

 family; he was frequently in the ftables, and 

 perceiving an enlargement juft above the 

 footlock joint, which denominating a windgally 

 he difplayed a great deiire to obliterate by per- 

 foration. This being too kindly (too inadver- 

 tently) permitted by the owner, he attempted 

 the operation with a common lancet y but with 

 fo little fortitude and fuccefs, that in making 

 his inciiion, the natural motion and rejedting 

 effort of the animal, fafcinated the inexperi- 

 enced operator in his firft attempt, and de- 

 prived him of his inflrument (which was the 

 next day found in the litter), but not till he had 

 given a defl:rud:ive proof of his inability, and 

 afforded a moil; ftriking corroboration of the 

 remarks before alluded to in " The Direftory," 

 upon this unlucky mode of extirpation. 



Proceeding to minute infpe6l:ion> I found 

 the whole joint and furrounding parts in the 

 higheft ftate of tenfion and inflammation ; the 

 orifice of the injury fo very trifling as barely to 

 admit the end of a probe, and fo exceeding 

 painful as not to bear the leafl preffure, but by 



much 



