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few Hours. He has now recovered all the Motions of 
his Foot, and (hews very little Lamenefs in Walking, and 
is not in the leaft inconrimoded in working at his Trade. 
If it fliould be thought, 1 have been tedious in reci- 
ting Co many particulars of this Cafe, it, may be fome 
excuft to have it known, that the Uncommonnefs of the 
Stitching of Tendons in general, and the Rarity of this 
Inftance in particular , might make it neceffary not to 
omit any Circumftance, fincz many Accurate Writers of 
the Operations of Surgery, either pafs by this of Sdtch- 
ing of Tendons , or di(approve of it ; and others de- 
fcribe the Pradliceof it, very different from what I have 
here Repyefented. 
REMARKS. 
Among all the Authors I have confulted on this 
Occafion, I can meet but with a fingle Inftance of the 
Jike Cafe , which is barely mentioned by Vcflingius, one 
of the moft Accurate Anatomifls of his time, who has 
exprefl his great furprize at the Succefs. 
It is a Common Opinion, That Stitching divided Ten- 
dons is hazardous , if not impradlicable ; nor has this 
Conjefture been without many Favourers of it among 
Chirurgical Writers : Tho' the Works of Amlrofe Pa^ 
r^^ juftly exaftour eftcem (particularly for recommend- 
ing that incomparable PraiJ-ice of tying the ends of 
Arteries, after the Amputations of Limbs, to reflrain 
the Flux of Blood,- and ftrenuoufly aflerting it 
againft his peevifh Adverfary , * Bartholom£us 
, "f- Lib.-j. PerMcis ; which PracSiice has been but lately revived 
. /^^ -^^* -f ^^^^S us with Succefs ;) I fay, notwithflanding this 
M/^^ y^ Author has fo well defer ved from Mankind, yet I ought 
s c^^^-t\- „Qt j-Q pafs by what he has faid in his Tenth Book,Ch.36. 
^^iVW^ri where he tells us, ' Some Surgeons have been fobold 
'{c^fL * to few together the ends of the Tendons of the 
r and other Joynts , when they have been quite 
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