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CASE 



OF A 



PUNCTURED OR LACERATED TENDO>f. 



In the month of November 1789, I re- 

 ceived a letter of folicitation from a gentle- 

 man very high in a certain royal eftablifh- 

 ment, requefting my immediate attendance in 

 London to give my opinion upon a horfe that, 

 from a mere fuperficial defed:, and co?npHcated 

 experhnents^ was rendered a perfedl cripple, 

 v^ithout hope or expedlation of cure. In fuch 

 predicament, it became a determined decifion 

 with the proprietor, that my perfonal invefti- 

 gation fhould conclude the fcene of anxiety, 

 by dooming the fubjed: to m??iediate death, or 

 producing a plauiible ray of hope for his re* 

 covery. 



Upon my arrival in town> and introdudtion 

 to the owner, I received informatton, that 

 about three months before, a kind of flatulent 



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