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EXTRACT 



OF THE 



REGISTERS 



OF THE 



Academy of Sciences. 



January 20, 1750. 



\Xr E have, by order of the Academy, ex- 

 ^ ^ amined a manufcript of the Sieur la 

 Fofle, farrier of the king's flables. The au- 

 thor fets forth, that having had frequent op- 

 portunities of drelTing lame-horfes, and not 

 finding the caufe of their lamenefs in either the 

 upper or middle parts of their limbs, he looked 

 for it in the feet •, and that a fmall tumor which 

 he obferved, pointed out the feat of the difor- 

 der ; the difTedion further demonflrated that 

 the coronary-bone was fradlured. 



After this firft obfervation the faid Sieur la 

 Fofie made feveral others of the fame kind -, and 

 what is fingular, is, that he aflerts this fradureis 

 made without any great effort of the horfe : and 

 that he faw one put to a voiture, fradure the 

 coronary-bone at the inftant he was ready to fet 



C 3 * off; 



