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the Uterus, fubaFallopiana and every thing el{e was found, ex- 
cept tht Omentunj^ which was quite confunned; what was very 
ftrange was, that Several bags of the larger fize in this ovary con- 
tained others Imaller within them, and the larger were filled with 
a liquor like honey, and the fmaller with a fubftance like whites 
of eggfs ; here and there were impofthumes, which were but fmall 
and filled with yellow matter 5 the gall-bladder was full of feveral 
triangular yellow ftones 5 fhe was very lean all over her body, 
her legs never fwelled nor pitted, and there was no noife of water 
on her ftirring in bed, till Ibme little time before tapoing, when 
fhe fell into lb great an OrthopnOday that fhe could not breathe 
unlefs in an erc6t pofture. 
The great Tendon above the Heel, after an entire 2)ivtJion 
of it ft ire bed and cured -^ by Mr, Will. Cowper. Phil. 
Tranf. N"" 252- p. 159. 
MR. Coii'per being called to Tho. Wheatky a carpenter, aged 
50 years, who had totally divided the great tendon of the 
Mufculi Gafterocne7nli of the left hg^ about t&ee fingers breadth 
above theOi cakis-^ he found the upper part of the tendon with- 
drawn from the lower 5 two inches at learf. 
The applications being prepared and two or three large needles 
with Itrong filk in them well waxed, he was obliged to divide 
the external teguments a,b Fig. 15. Plate X. to come at the ends 
of the divided tendon A, B5 this done, he paffed the firft needle 
C thro' the body of the tendon A, about half an inch above its 
divided extremity 5 the fecond needle D was thruft thro' this 
upper part of the tendon, a little under the former, left the two 
threads, /liould meet each other at their crcffing in the middle of 
the tendon; afterwards both thefe needles were paffed thro' the 
lower part of the divided tendon B 5 the foot beincr held ex- 
tended, the two ends of the tendon were applied to each other bv 
the affiftance of the ligatures C, D, which were fo tied as to keep 
the divided ^rts dole together, whilft the foot remained in this 
poiturej after the four ends of thele ligatures were cut off, 
Mr. Cowper found it was neceflary to bring the fides of the di- 
vided ikin near each other, with one fingle ftitch, a little above 
the future of the tendon ^ this done, a pledget of lint dipt m bal- 
fam of turpentine was laid on the wounds, and another large 
pledget of flax, armed with Limmeraum e gummi elemi over it 5 
after the applicationof common bandages, bolfters, ^c. he found 
it necefTary to place a thick piece of paftboard of a convenient 
arched figure on the foreparts of the foot and leg, to keep the 
part 
