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and Trouble with him to no Manner of Purpofe ; 

 fo that he thought him abfolutely incurable, the 

 Tumour was fo large and of fuch a hard and horny 

 Nature : And farther he faid, he had Reaion to be- 

 lieve the fame a Fiftula, which penetrated deep be- 

 tween the Shoulder-Blades and Ribs. 



This Sentence I thought a very harfh one pafs'd 

 on my old Servant, by one of the better Sort of 

 Pradlifers in his Way. However, I told him, if 

 he would operate with his Knife, I would direct it ; 

 feeing he thought the Horfe fit for nothing but try- 

 ing Experiments upon. This he very readily con- 

 fented to, for it was my old Friend the Farrier 

 (whom I have often mentioned) that Vv'rought for 

 me, and I for him, fo that We Dcdlors never took 

 any Fees from one another, as the facetious and 

 lucky PrognofJcator Dr. Radc/ijfc merrily exprefs'd 

 himfelf to an Operator of this Kind. In (hort, we 

 caft tlie poor Creature, and after fecuring his Feet, 

 ^c*. I made the Farrier cut a Hat's Crown full of 

 horny and hard Flefh from about the Withers ; in- 

 fcmiuch that my Friend cried out to ilop, or we 

 fhould cut the Fix-Fax of the Neck (as he calPd it) 

 whiclr is the large and ilrong Tendon that fupporls 

 the Head. This I thought a good Obfervation of 

 the Fellow, who had (as every one fhould) ia his 

 Mind the Parts concern'd in the Operation : B.it I 

 bid him proceed, for that we w'ere yet fafe enougli 

 from what he apprehended. When he had cut as 

 much of the callous Subllance away as 1 judged riC- 

 ceffary, I ordered him to fearch the Wound for a 

 Cavity or hollow Part, which he ufually did by ni 

 kind of crooked Horn like the Antler or Branch of 

 a Stag, whereby he difcovered a Fiiiula which feem'd 

 to run along tov/ards the Shoulder-Biades, though I 

 was in Hopes it was not very deep for Reafons too 

 tedious to enumerate. This done, the next Thing 

 to be conf-der'd was the found Healing of theWound, 

 and at as eafy an Expence as might be, lefl the Cure 

 fhould be worfe than the Difeafe i for he was then 

 P 4 a Korfe 



