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part infle(5led, and to prevent any motion of it, which ntiight 
break out the Hitches in the tendon; the patient complained very 
much in pafTing the needles thro' the upper part of the divided 
tendon, tho* its middle and internal part at the divilion was 
Icarcely fenfible; he had no pain in paffing the needle thro' the 
lower part of the tendon; afterwards 14 ounces of blood was 
taken from his arm, and in fix hours Mr. Cowper found his pulfe 
fomewhat quicker than before ; then he took an ounce of lyrup 
e Ateconh, and next morning he was in no bad condition, having 
had fome fleep the night before, but was often waked with 
twitchings in the calf of the wounded kg ; the third day after 
the operation, Mr. Coivper dreffed the wound with the fame ap- 
plications as before, only ufing a fomentation made of a decoction 
of wormwood, fage, rofemary, bay-leaves, ^c. on the fourth 
day after the operation he found the applications on the wound 
very wet with a ferous humour, commonly called a gleet; on 
the fixth day the matter became fomewhat thicker, and the fkin 
being a little diftended about the wound, he was obliged to divide 
the laft mentioned Hitch in order to admit a free dilcharge of the 
^us, which on the two fucceeding days became much thicker 
than before, and the gleet was conlequently lefifened. 
About this lime the two ends of the tendon were not a little 
dilated, and a white flough appeared towards the upper part 
of the wound, on which, inftead of the balfam of turpentine, he 
applied tindure of myrrh ; in Ibme days after, this (lough came 
otf, and the two ends of the tendon were covered over with a fun- 
gous fle/h, by which Mr. Cowper was affured tliat its blood-veffels 
and nutritive tubes, were not comptefled by the two firffc liga- 
tures ; afterwards he made u{e of drier applications than before, 
fbmetimes ufing lint only, and at other times the powder of tur- 
pentine; about 10 days after the operation, Mr. Cowper found 
one of the two ligatures in the tendon hanging loole, which he 
divided and drew out; and two or three days after, the other liga- 
ture alio was loofe, which he in like manner remoyed; the part 
being all this while kept inflefled by the paft- board abovemen- 
tioned: Mr. Co-iy/^^r was often obliged to apply efcarotics to leflf^n 
the Fuv^tis on the tendon ; in leis than 90 days after the operation 
the patient went abroad very lamely, and not many days after he 
walked round St. jfames's park; within 8 weeks after the opera- 
tion he walked from Witcb-ftreet without "Temple Sar^ to Green- 
ivicb, and returned in a few hours; he entirely recovered all the 
motions of his f)ot and fliewcd very little lamenels in walking, 
not beina in the leaft incommoded at his trade. 
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