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or flucfluating tumour appeared upon the infide 

 of the near hough, difplaying great tendernefs 

 upon preiTure, and confiderable pain in adion ; 

 notwithflanding which, it was obferved to 

 vary fo much in eifed:, as to be produdlive of 

 lamenefs at one time and not at another. 

 Thefe ciixumllance^ were communicated by 

 the groom to his mafter, and by him in cafual 

 converfation to one of the faculty, a furgeon 

 of no fmall eminence, who kindly offering his 

 affiflance, a chirurgical infped:ion took place, 

 which terminated in the daily application of 

 different poultices to promote fuppuration ; 

 thefe were continued till the joint opinion of 

 furgeon and groom pronounced the matter 

 ** perfectly ripe'* for expulfion. Under fuch 

 confultation, in the abfence of the owner, the 

 incifion was unluckily made, and ftill more 

 unluckily^ immediately upon the Jiexor tendon, 

 and directly upon the part where it lay neareft 

 the furface. To the difappointment in this 

 operation, fucceeded diftrufts, difcontcnt, and 

 cavillings, between the projectors; forno;//^/- 

 tcry no fanies, digefted or indigefted, following 

 the inftrument of feparation, mutual confter- 

 nation enfued, and language little Ihort of 

 reproach prevailed with either party. This, 

 o con- 



