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O B S E RVAT I O N 



UPON SUCH 



ACCIDENT 



j^ often happen to hdrfis feet^ which ghj€ them 

 ^ ftidden lamenefs^ the canfe of which mrmut he 

 discovered. 



Observation L 



lame horie was committed to my care, but 

 -^ -* I could receive no manner of informatloE 

 concerning his diforder ; and after I had drdHed 

 him for eight and twenty days, without either 

 difcGvering the caufe, or the ieaft ibccefs : they 

 put him into the hands of another farrier, who 

 alio attended him Mtt^^ days longer. The owb- 

 «r of the horfe feeing this man's endeavours as 

 fruitlefs as m.ine, gave him up to me, and I cut 

 off his leg in order for difledion ; and found the 

 ^endo Achillis ruptured near its infertion, and the 

 coronary bone broke into three pieces, without 

 any diflocation ; having as recent an appearance 

 as if they had been fractured but a day ; altho* 

 the accident happened fix weeks before. And not 

 htiii^ able to find ont how, nor by what particular 



