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and kicked by a vicious horse till he had five holes 

 in his left leg ; the sinew first below the right knee 

 cut through and two holes in that leg, also two 

 shocking cuts above the knee ; seven times taken 

 apparently dead out of different rivers. 



'^ Since 1793, when a reference to these accidents 

 was given by Mr. Madely, surgeon, of Uttoxeter, 

 he had the right shoulder dislocated and collar-bone 

 broken ; seven ribs broken ; breast-bone laid open 

 and right shoulder dislocated; left shoulder dislo- 

 cated and left arm broken; two ribs broken, and 

 right thigh seriously bruised ; in 1819 (being then 

 in his seventy-sixth year) a lacerated Avound in the 

 calf of the leg, extending to the foot ; mortification 

 of the wound took place, which exposed all the flexor 

 tendons of the foot, also the capsular ligaments of 

 the ankle-joint ; he became delirious and so con- 

 tinued three weeks ; his wonderful recovery from 

 this accident was attributed chiefly to the circum- 

 stance of a friend having supplied him with a 

 quantity of old Madeira, a glass of which he took 

 everj^ two hours for eight wrecks, and afterwards 

 occasionally. Since then, in 1823, being in his 

 eightieth year, he had a mortification of the second 

 toe of the right foot, with exfoliation of the bone, 

 from which he recovered, and at last died of old age 

 in his eighty-third year. He was the father of 

 eighteen children by one wife in fifteen years, all of 



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