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as merely relaxed in thefe cafes, and hence re- 

 quiring what they deem bracers only as necef- 

 fary to a cure, which applications have gene- 

 rally produced a greater depofit of coagulable 

 lymph, obftrufting the motion of the Dart, and 

 rendering the lamenefs permanent" Here he 

 has totally forgotten, that he himfelf is guilty 

 of precifely the fame error (which I alfo no- 

 ticed in St. Bel) adopting the ftrongefl bracing 

 and aftringent practice, in the acute founder, 

 (page 705) a cafe of fluxion, inflammation, and 

 tenfion of the veflels, in which cafe and pra61:ice 

 I have, more than once, feen the refult o^ per- 

 manent lamenefs. 



Whence comes it, that Mr. Blaine, fo ready 

 to quefl:ion me on the mofl: trifling and even ri- 

 diculous topics — barbs and fat ! ! preferves a 

 total filence to the arguments I have advanced 

 on this mofl: important of all veterinary fub- 

 jefts ? It is my purpofe to be more compla- 

 cent to Mr. Blaine. Let us then fee, with what 

 degree of truth and congruity, he has fupport- 

 ed his adopted child — the inelafticity of ten- 

 dons. Vol II. p. 644, nature has given " ab- 

 folute inelafiicity to the tendons, which are but 

 the ropes of the mufcles, or like the flring 

 to the bow." Imprimis— where are thofe ropes 

 and bow-ftrings which are not elaftic, or, which 

 is more to the prefent purpofe, are not relaxed 

 and elongated by heat, and contrafted and 



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