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was a buckle, through which the ftrap of the foot-foek was 

 pafTed, fo that the foot could be extended, and the calf 

 brought down at pleafure. The leg and foot were wrapt 

 up in foft flannel, fumigated with benzoin, and the bandage 

 was kept on day and night, the belt being made tighter 

 when the doftor was about to go to deep, and loofened 

 when he was awake, and on his guard. For a fortnight he 

 did not move his foot and leg at all, but was conveyed in a 

 chair on caftors from one part of the room to another. 

 After this he began to move the ankle-joint, but in fucli a 

 gentle manner, as not to give any pain. The degree of 

 motion was gradually increafed, as t!ie tendon became ca- 

 pable of bearing it, care being taken to Hop, when the mo- 

 tion began to create uneafincfs. The affedled limb was 

 moved in this way, for half an hour at a time. In a few 

 days, the hollow between the feparated ends of the tendon 

 became imperceptible, though the part continued foft much 

 longer. It became, however, gradually thicker and harder, 

 until a knot was at laft formed in it, apparently of a carti- 

 laginous nature. Though this was at iirll as large as a mid- 

 dling plum, and gradually became fofter and fmaller, yet it 

 did not difappear entirely. Having occafion to go out fix 

 weeks after tlie accident, the dodlor put on a pair of (hoes, 

 with heels two inches high, and contrived a Itecl machine to 

 keep his foot in the proper pofition. This machine, how- 

 ever, he afterwards changed for another, made of the fame 

 materials as the former. It was not till five months after the 

 accident, that he thought proper to lay afide all affillance, 

 and to put the ftrength of the tendon to a trial. See 

 Monro's Works, p. 66 1. 



It feems unnecelFary to enumerate the various plans de- 

 vifed fince the time of Petit. Suffice it to ftate, that both 

 in a wound and rupture of the tendo Achillis, the ancient 

 method of ufing a future, for keeping the ends of the ten- 

 don in contadt, is at prefent quite exploded, and pofition of 

 the limb is the grand agent by which the cure is now univer- 

 fally accomplifhed. The following was Default's method, 

 which, though it was exprefsly defigned to fulfil all the 

 above-mentioned indications, may not after all be a more 

 valuable practical plan, than the one adopted by Dr. 

 Monro. After the ends of the tendon had been brought 

 into contaft, by moderate flexion of the knee, and complete 

 cxtenfion of the foot, Default ufed to fill up the hollows on 

 each fide of the tendon with foft lint and comprefles. The 

 roller applied to the limb made as much preflure on thefe 

 comprefies as on the tendon, and hence this part could not 

 be depreffed too much againil the fubjacent parts. Default 

 next took a comprefs, about two inches broad, and long 

 enough to reach from the toes to the middle of the thigh, 

 and placed it under the foot, over the back of the leg, and 

 the lower part of the thigh. He then began to apply a few 

 circles of a roller round the end of the foot, fo as to fix the 

 lower extremity of the longitudinal comprefs. After cover- 

 ing the whole foot with the roller, he ufed to make the 

 bandage defcribe the figure of 8, paffing it under the foot, 

 and acrofs the place \\ here the tendon was ruptured, and the 

 method was finifhed by encircling the limb upward with the 

 roller, as far as the upper end of the longitudinal comprefs. 

 Default par Bichat. 



Certainly this plan feems to anfwer every objedt, and may 

 be worthy of being adopted in this country. The con- 

 tinued prefTure on the mufcles of the calf, by which their 

 aftion is materially refilled, is too much dilregarded by the 

 generality of Englifli lurgeons. Confult Monro's Works 

 Encyclopedie Methodique, article Achille, tendon d' ; and 

 M^moire fur la Divifion du Tendon d'Achille, in CEuvres Chi- 



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rurgicales de Default par Bichat, torn. i. p. 306. Cooper't 

 Di<ft. of Praftical Surgery. 



Tendons, Shooting of the, Subftiltiis Ifndinum, in Medicine, a 

 (light and repeated convulfive twitching of the mufcles, 

 whicli occurs in the latter (lages of low fevers ; and, as it in- 

 dicates great debility, and a very morbid condition of the 

 brain or comnuju fenforium, it is ufually reckoned among the 

 dangerous fymplomj of fever. See Fevek, and Tvi-iius. 



Tendon, in the Manege, a fort of griille that furrounds 

 one part of the horfe's foot, and is feated between the hoof 

 and the coffin-bone, near the coronet. When a horfe has a 

 quitter-bone, the matter that gathers between the coffin-bone 

 and the hoof fpoils the tendon, and makes it black ; and tiie 

 cure of fuch a quitter-bone confills in cutting and extirpating 

 the tendon. 



TENDREMENT, Fr. in Mufu, tenderly, equal to con 

 tenerezza, Ital. See Con yljfetto, and AKFErTLO.-o. 



TENDRIL, in Botany and Vegetable Philology. See 

 Ciituus. 



TENDUCCI, Feudinando, in Biography, an opera- 

 finger in foprano, born at Sienna, whence he at firft adumed 

 the name of Sencfino, on account of the celebrity of a finger 

 of that city, in the early part of the laft century ; though 

 neither his voice nor flyle of finging at all refembled that of 

 the great finger and adlor, Fraucifco Bernardo detto Sene- 

 fino, whofe viiice was a rich and full contralto, and in whofe 

 finging and afting there were more of grandeur and dignity 

 than tendernefs and expreffion, which charafterizcd Ten- 

 ducci's ftyle ; and whofe voice was a high foprano of a clear 

 filvery tone, which by great pains he had rendered very 

 flexible ; but he had formed himfelf more on CafFarelli's 

 ftyle than on that of Senefino. 



He arrived in England, as fecond man, in 1 758, when 

 Potenza was principal. The firft notice he obtained was in 

 a cantabile air, fet by Caffarelh for liimfelf, in a fine ftyle of 

 grand pathetic, fuch as fix years after, Manzoh's fine adagio 

 in Ezio, "Caro mio bene addio," was compofed in by 

 Pefcetti. 



It was in 1759, during the reign of Cocchi's " Ciro 

 riconofciuto," that he became a favourite of the public ; 

 for though a young performer, and only fecond in rank under 

 Potenza, he had a much better voice and manner of finging 

 than the performer to whom he gave precedence. 



In 1760 he went to Scotland, and we hear no more of 

 him till 1763, when he returned to London, and performed 

 the principal man's part in Dr. Arne's Artaxerxes, of which 

 the fuccefs was greatly owing to his talents. 



At this period, Bacii and Abel eftabliftied a weekly fub- 

 fcription concert in Hanover-fquare, which was better 

 patronized and longer fupportcd than perhaps any one had 

 ever been in this country, having continued full twenty years 

 with uninterrupted profperity, at which, during the cliicf part 

 of the time, Tenducci was the principal finger. 



In 1770 he fucceeded Guadagni as firft man at the great 

 opera, performing that year with the GralTi in " Corroe," 

 and the next year in " Semiramide riconofciuta." 



In 1764 he went to Ireland, where he and Mifs Brent 

 performed together in Artaxerxes. 



In 1765 an Italian opera was performed in Dublin, in 

 which he and the Cremonini fung principal parts in Mithri- 

 datcs, in the principal cities of that country. 



Some time after he returned to London, and was engaged 

 at the opera, where, in 1785, he revived Gluck's Orfeo. 



Such is the outline of his profelTional career in public. 

 The events of his priv.ate hfe are ftill more varied. 



He had not been long in England before he was thrown 

 U u 2 into 



