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Observation XVIII. 



Having dreflcd a horfe whofe fole was 

 drawn, from which they had cut away part of 

 the frog for a flreet nail that had affected 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 j but about 

 ten days after the accident, a humour appeared 

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

 nut-bone might, be fractured, 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 

 dreffings for three months which fucceeded ; 

 what gave me hopes, was my having ken 

 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 infertion 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 differing his 

 foot ; when I found the tendon offified with 

 * A vulnerary balfam, like rjie Friars Balfam. 



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