SUPPLEMENT. 453 



This account having been given me in 

 recital, as w^ell as the prefent ftate of the horfe, 

 I could not entertain a doubt of the flexor ten- 

 don's being pundtured by the original operator, 

 or lacerated by his fucceffor, in the daily prob- 

 ings that were to effect fo expeditious a cure. 

 Proceeding, how^ever, to the ftables, I found 

 the patient upon three legs, in a ftail barely five 

 feet wide, in a ftate of the greateft agony ; his 

 leg in an almoft conftant contractive motion, 

 abfolutely groaning with the extremity of pain, 

 the whole limb perceptibly wafted, the frame 

 emaciated, the joint much enlarged, the cica- 

 trix exceedingly tender, bearing no preiTure 

 upon the tendon, and an uncommon ftricture 

 upon the furrounding parts, wherever the 

 blifler had taken effeiflj and, to render the 

 bufmefs of inquiry complete, I found cir- 

 cumftances had varied very little for near two 

 months, but that fymptoms had continued 

 nearly in the fame ftate, 



Every adlion, every predominant trait tend- 

 ing to corroborate my firft opinion upon the 

 cafe, I could not hefitate a moment to pro- 

 nounce, that whatever had been the origin of 

 the fimple tumour {perhaps a bhii^ that had, 

 G g 3 hovvever. 



