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effort this bone could be broken •, nor whether it 

 was begun by the foot, or paflern bone •, I 

 fhewed it to feveral ikilful perfons, who after a 

 long examination appeared as much at a (land 

 about it as myfelf Nor was there any fudden 

 effort of the horfe obierved before it. 



Ob SE RVATION IL 



With refpe6l to fuch efforts, I myfelf faw a 

 horfe, put to a coach, fradure the coronary bone 

 at his firll fetting off. 



Observation III. 



I happened to pafs by a coach, when the 

 coachman, ready to put off, whipped his horfe, 

 w^ho inflantly made a fpring, and became fud- 

 denly lame ; having obferved it, I felt his foot, 

 and the rattling nolle I was fenfible of, by touch- 

 ing him, indicated the coronary bone to be frac- 

 tured ; and the diffedion farther proved the Ten- 

 do Achillis to have been ruptured near its infer- 

 tion, as may be feen by the figures. 



Observation IV. 



A horfe who was put to a coach, being at 

 the fame time very quiet, received a cut of a 

 whip from the coachman, which made him 

 tremble, whence he fuddenly fell lame ; the 



coach- 



