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dragged or flrained ; its fibres will not be fuf- 

 ceptible of any violent diflenfion, in cafe of 

 any fudden violent motion. 



I dare affirm before hand that a rupture of 

 the tendon will never happen upon the middle 

 of a paved flone ; and if it ever ihould, it could 

 only be ruptured in the interftice between two 

 of thefe paved flones. From what I have faid, 

 two things plainly appear : that all the different 

 degrees of violence that one can imagine from 

 its total rupture, to the moft flight diftra6bion 

 of its fibres that can lame a horfe, may happen 

 to the tendon ; and that it is upon the frog alone 

 that all thefe degrees depend, as it is more parti- 

 cularly laid down in the hiftory of the fradure 

 of the coronary- bone, and in the anatomy of a 

 horfe's foot. 



Objection VII. 



It is faid, the horfe will be more fubjedl to 

 be injured by ftreet nails, and to other acci- 

 dents which proceed from pricking the flefhy 

 fole. 



Answer. As in this method the foot is 

 not pared, the horny fole will aKvays have its 

 full natural ilrength i and confequently will be 

 lefs liable to be penetrated, than when it is made 

 extremely thin. 



Objection VIIL 

 They fay that the horfe is not fhod to be 

 eafy, that he goes in pain, and mull be lame. 



Answer. 



