will break the continuity of the Pores, and obflru(St the 
Paflages of the Spirits. FiJi (fays he) & audivi in 
multii Nervos & Tendines incifoSy & eos ita refiauratet 
Sutura, & aliis auxiliis, ut po[lea imredtbiU videretur 
ipfos fmjfe incifos. 
. Macius Aurelitu Severinus alfo pleads for ftirchingof 
Tendons ; Here I muft not omit taking notice of a Milrr- 
prefencation this Author makes in citing aPaffige from 
Awhrofe Parey,vvhttt he only acquaints us of a Tin- cafe, 
or Thumb-ftall he cauftd to be made, to keep the 
Thumb Ereft , after its extending Tendons were com- 
pleatly divided Nor does Parey fay , thofe Tendons 
were afterwards joyned together again, ziSeverintu re- 
prefents. Petrus de Marchettu , Obf.LXIlf. takes No- 
tice pf this Miftake of Severhus, and Cenfures him tor 
piomotuig this Pradiceof Stitching of Tendons. 
Felix Wurtz aflures us from his own Experience, and 
the Pradice of Others , that Tendons totally divided 
will unite again, by ftitching them together. 
Epif^.xv. The Learned and Ingenuous Joannes Fejlingitu , in 
an Epiftle to Falriciiu Hildanm (where he cites divers 
Inconfiftencies out of Galen , concerning Wounds of 
the Tendons) produces an Inftance not unlike this I 
have related , Vidi ( fays he ) in parentis met ama' 
menfe Otham Lofero Tendinem a Gaflerocnemiu Sole^ 
Mtifculis conflatum^ panto fupra Calcis os diffeilum^ futu* 
ris aliqot a Chirurgls conjun^lum. (To this he adds) ^ 
In Arahe item cui acinace Tendo a Tihi£ Extmforiliu con*m^ 
ftitutus tranfverjinr fub Patella genu Vulneratm^ fimilemW[ 
in modum i Tunitario Chirurgo adducelatur : Deteffalarm 
hominum audficiam , fed felix fuccejjm (§'vix not aide jB?' 
, pera^a curatione dctrimtntum^ timorismeivanitafemar^W^ 
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