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EXTRACT 



OF THE 



REGISTERS 



OF THE 



Academy of Sciences. 



January 20, 1750. 



W T E have, by order of the Academy, ex- 

 * * amined a manufcript of the Sieur la 

 Fofîè, farrier of the king's fiables. The au- 

 thor fets forth, that having had frequent op- 

 portunities of drefîïng 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 dilîèflion further demonstrated that 

 the coronary-bone was fractured. 



After this firft obfervation the faid Sieur la 

 Foffe made feveral others of the fame kind ; and 

 what is fingular, is, that he afferts this fracture is 

 made without any great effort of the horfe : and 

 that he faw one put to a voiture, fracture the 

 coronary-bone at the inflant he was ready to fet 

 C 3 off; 



