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coachman faw it and looked at his foot. And 

 though nothing ailed him to appearance, he 

 put him into the fiable. Ï was called and 

 found the coronary- bone fractured, declaring 

 him incurable ; but this was doubted, becauJfe 

 they had not obiêrved any effort made by the 

 horfe before it -, however they took care of, 

 and dreffed him for a month, but as he grew 

 no better, they put him to death -, I differed 

 his foot to fliew them I was not miftaken ; 

 Ï demonftrated that the coronary-bone was 

 fractured into three pieces : but was furpriied 

 to find the nut-bone alfo broke in two, and 

 the Tenth Achillas entire, becaufe I never faw 

 fractures of this kind before, among the ma- 

 ny directions 1 had made. 



Observation V. 



Having examined a horfe, whofe fhouider 

 was dreiTed, which was thought the feat of his 

 diforder-, I aherted it was in the foot, caufed 

 by the compreflion of the coronary-bone -, for, 

 that being in motion, it raifes and puflies the 

 nut-bone againft the tendon, which puts the 

 fleihy fole in a flate of compreiîion, as if between 

 an anvil and hammer. It formed an inflammation 

 there, and therefore they ought to have imme- 

 diately drawn the fole ; but as they had loft 

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

 him again, and found a fmall fwelling at the 



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