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Observation XVIII. 



Having drefled a horfe whofe fole was 

 drawn, from which they had cut away part of 

 the frog fd> a flreet nail that had afFe6ted it ; 

 being almoft cured, as he lay along, he had a 

 cut of a whip given him *, he ftarted up but was 

 lamed by the fudden fpring in rifing. I thought 

 at firft that it was occafioned by the prefTure of 

 the coronary- bone againft the nut-bone; but about 

 ten days after the accident, a humour appeared 

 about the middle of the foot -, I then thought the 

 nut- bone might be fradlured, but the humour 

 penetrated deeper -, I obferved the nut-bone in- 

 tire, but the tendon ruptured, and the lower 

 part properly attached. In five or fix days 

 more this part of the tendon came off piece- 

 meal from its adhefion, and laid the nut- bone 

 bare. I ufed the Fioraventi Balfam * in my 

 drefiings for three months which fucceeded ; 

 what gave me hopes, was my having feen 

 fome horfes, whofe tendons were cut acrofs 

 through ignorance, recover \ I had a mind to 

 know how the upper part of the tendon could 

 reunite at its insertion upon the foot-bone, for 

 this horfe was cured. And an accident hap- 

 pened by which he died eleven months after, 

 which gave me an opportunity of difleding his 

 foot ; when I found the tendon oflified with 



* A vulnerary balfam, like the Friars Balfam. 



the 



