C ^S7 ) ^ 
* Cut afunder. But I durft never i\t tempt it, fap he, /^ lt^v 
« for fear of Pain, Convulfions, and the like horrid - /V-^/^^ 
« SympEonis. {Jothhhec{M{) For the Wounds of that f-^^^ 
* large Tendoo: which is compofed of the Three Miif- 
« cles of the. Calf of the Leg, and goes to the Hee!, ^ ^ - 
« I have obfe^v'd when it hath been Cut with a Sword, > r, 
« that the Wounds have been long and hard to Cure; ' 
* and befides , when at the iaft they have been healed ; ' 1^/ ' ' B^^^ 
« fofoon as the Patient hath got out of his Bed, and en- j^^jk t/fd^'fJ^' 
* deavoured to go, they have grown ill, and broke :^!^J^M '^^^ 
' open again. "1^" <^ . M 
I had once an opportunity of obftrving the like in a 
Wound of this Tendon, which nevertheieft ought not 
todifcourage Surgeons from Stitching it, when it is en- 
tirely divided, as the preceding Inftance will Evince. 
Hippocrates feems to favour the Opinion , That Morb. 
Nerves or Tendons would not grow together when en- ^J^l*^'^^^ 
tirely divided ; nor does he any where (that I can find) 
fpeak of Stitching them. 
Tho' Galen does not propofe the future of divided 
Tendons, yet Guido pretends he tacitly Acknowledges ^ Traa:. 3. 
^that Prad:ice,infaying,f They are Cured as other Vlcers ^l^'^' 
And Wounds are J i.e. Gnido adds, Quod aliaUkera fuun- 1 Medi. 
tur^ ut ferventnr partes, adduils. med.c.3. 
^i;/r^«fays, St autem dijrumpatur in latitudine Ner- Fen.4.T. 
viu tunc necejfarium eft fuere ipfum, & fi non^ non cohglu- 4* c^P* 
tlnatur. ThQ ViktO^'mion mth Avicen isGuLe Salice* , ^ • ^ t^^^j 
t6\jb,7. Cs), Rogerius y L.3.C.13. Lanfrancus y i<f ' 
C9. Dod.3.'C.3. & in Chirurgia parva, C.4. Kicolam ^lif.l^^^'^'f' 't^ - 
Flmntiniu fpeaks of the Suture of Tendons, and fo dots'-^'^^^ -^S ^ 'mf^* 
G/^/(^(? Contends for this Operation, and Anfwers the 
Objedions thofe make, who fay thefe parrs will not 
grow together again by the firft Intention, and raufl: 
tlierefore be fupplied with a Foreign Subftance, which 
will . 
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