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however, never been afcertained), the caufe of 

 the prefent diftreffing fcene was abfolutely and 

 beyond all poffibility of doubt or contradiftion, 

 a puncSure or laceration of the tendon. 



Obfcured as the cafe was, by what is too 

 much the practice, complicated opinions and 

 various experiments, in addition to the length 

 of time fince the injury had been fuftained, 

 great or fanguine hope of fuccefs was not to be 

 entertained. I neverthelefs obferved, if the 

 owner wiihed to adopt fuch fyftem as alone 

 feemed calculated to alleviate fymptoms and 

 afford relief, giving the whole a fair and per- 

 fevering tri^l of three weeks or a month, with- 

 out any perceptible advantage. I ihould then 

 (however difagreeable the office muft be) cer- 

 tainly not hefitate to advife the propriety of 

 paffing the only fentence that could extricate 

 the fubiecl from a life of extreme pain and 

 perpetual mifery. 



My propofal having been inftantly and moll 

 cheerfuliy acquiefced in by the great humanity 

 and anxious wifh for prefervation in the owner, 

 I ordered, mthotit delay, a coach-houfe, or 

 open jiabk to be procured (which was very 

 **^ luckily 



