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 coadiman faw it and looked at his foot. And 

 though nothing ailed him to appearance^ he 

 put him into the liable, I was called a.nd 

 found the coronary- bone fradiuredj declarmg 

 him inciirable ; but this was doubted, becaule 

 they had not obferved any effort made by the 

 horfe before it ; however they took care of, 

 and drefled him for a month, but as he grew 

 no better^ they put him to death ; I difTcifted 

 has foot to fhew them I was not miftaken ^ 

 I demoiiftrated that the coronary-bone was 

 fra^hured into three pieces : but was fujprifed 

 to find the nut-bone alfo broke in tw^, and, 

 the Tendo ^chillis entire, becaufe I never favt^ 

 fraclures of this kind before, among the ma- 

 oy difleifHoiis I had made. 



Observation V. 



Having examined a horfe, whofe Ihoulder 

 was drefled, which was thought the feat of his 

 diforder-, I aflerted it v/as in the foot, caufed 

 by the comprejiion of tht coronary-bone ; for, 

 that being in motion, it raifes and pufhes the 

 nut-bone againfl the tendon, which puts the 

 Heihy fole in a ilate of compreflion, as if between 

 an anvil and hammer. It formed an inflammation 

 there, and therefore they ought to have imme- 

 diately drawn the ible ; but as they had loll 

 fome time, and feeing he did not mend, i faw 

 him again^ and found a fmall fwelling at the 



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