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totally ruined by a broken knee, received upon 

 a projedling flint in the road between Henley 

 jind Wargravc, that, feparating the ligamen- 

 tary union of articulation at the joint, not only 

 produced an immediate hourly increaiing in- 

 flammatory and incredible enlargement of the 

 whole limby but a fixed contradlion (without 

 the power of even refting the foot on the 

 ground), in oppofition to every attempt to 

 relieve, by three of the moft eminent prac- 

 titioners in the centre of the royal ftuds, w^hen, 

 after the faireft exertions for fome weeks, he 

 was unavoidably doomed to the death it was 

 impoilibie to prevent. 



A fecond, much more fevere hi external ap- 

 pearance than the foregoing, was a bred mare (got 

 by an Arabian, late in poileiTion of Sir T. Rum- 

 bold, now of his Royal Highnefs the Prince of 

 Wales), the property of the owner of the farcy 

 mare (defcribed in cafe the fecond), and was at- 

 tended with equal fuccefs -, for although the inte- 

 gument and foft parts of the knee were entirely 

 deftroyed, as if taken oil Vv-ith an inftrument. 

 (by a violent fall on a very hard gravel road 

 in Windfor Foreil) fo as almoft to deftroy every 

 expedation of cure ; yet by a daily reduction of 



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