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 off; thofe alio who have carried their horfes, 

 affected in the fame manner, to him, have allur- 

 ed him that the lea ft falfe flep has occafioned it. 

 The Sieur la Foffe remarks another fingularity, 

 which is, that the coronary-bone is generally di- 

 vided in three pieces nearly equal. Perhaps the 

 reafon of this may be drawn from the confidera- 

 tion of the manner in which the coronary-bone 

 is joined to the paflern and foot-bones, by their 

 flrong ligaments, which being three in number, 

 each feems to have retained its part of the bone, 

 and favoured its divifion into three parts. 



The difcovcry of this difeafe, which has ne- 

 ver been treated of before by the writers of ana- 

 tomy, medicine, or furgery, does not lead us 

 to the manner of curing it, becaufe it is ab- 

 folutely incurable -, on the contrary it ferves to 

 convince us, that if it was even pofiible to keep 

 the bones together fo as to favour their uniting, 

 the fracture being in a joint, there would ftill 

 remain an anchylofis or callous, which would 

 render the horiè unfit for fervice. 



But the Sieur la Foffe's obfervation is not- 

 withftanding of very great ufe, for it mews us 

 the impoffibility of curing a difeafe that was 

 always thought curable from their ignorance 

 of the matter, and confequently he has found 

 the means of fparing %o the owners of horfes, 

 taken lame, the expences of a cure attempted 

 in vain. He further knows how to diftinguifh 

 when the coronary-bone is fractured or is not i 



although 



