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II An Account of Stiuhing the Great Tendb^t^. 
between the Calf of the Leg and HeeL with 
its %)nion and Cure^ after an entire Dimfion 
of it J With Kemarh^ : Kead at a Meeting of 
the Royal Society. By Mr. William Cow- 
per, FJv 6\ 
ON the Firft Day of February laft I was called to 
Thomas Wheatly , a Carpenter , Aged Thirty 
Years , who had totally divided the Great Tendoo of 
the Mnfculi Gaflerocnemti of the Left Leg, about Three 
Fingers Breadth above the Os Calcis, I found the upper 
part of the Tendon withdrawn from the Inferior at 
leafl: Two Inches. I not being provided with Needles 
large enough for the Operation I defign'd, I was obli- 
ged to ftep home to fetch them ; and in my return I 
called on Mt.Gooddiar^ an Experienced Surgeon , who 
was prefenr, and affifted me in the following Opera- 
tion. 
The Applications being prepared, and Two or Three 
large Needles, with ftrong Silk in them well Waxed, I 
was firft obliged to divide the external TegumentSj 
Fig. I. a^ b. to come at the ends of the divided Teodon, 
ABih. Thisdooe, the firft Needle ( C ) f paffed tho- 
row the Body of the Tendon (^) about half an loch 
above its di^nded Extremity. The fecond Needle (D} 
was thruft through this upper part of the Tendoo, a 
little under the former, leaft the two Threads (or Silks) 
fliould meet each other at their decuflation, io the mid» 
die of the Tendon. Afterwards both thefe Needjes 
were paffed thorow the lower part of the divided Ten* 
don, as expreft in the laft mentioned Figure C. D, The 
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