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An Account of the Extraordinary Cure of a 
Horfe that tvas Staked into his Stomach y 
communicated by the Ke^ferend Dr. John 
Wallis, D. D. R. S, Soc. 
* frWT^ H I S is to give you an account of a late Ac- 
I * cident, which feems to me very confidera- 
i * ble, and worth obferving. My Son ( Mr. 
' John iVallis, of Soundejs by l^ettk hed in Oxford/hire ) 
* had a Horfe, which thislaft Summer 1695 ( fometime 
* after Midfummar^ in Harveft-time ) leaping over a 
* Hedge, chanced to ftake himfelf ; and fo dangeroufly 
* that the Stake entred far into his Body, and ( as ap- 
^ peared afterwards J into the Cavity of his Maw or 
^ Ventricle. What time of the day this happened, we 
* know not ; but a Boy being fent to fetch home the 
* Horfe, rode home upon him about four of the Clock 
* iti the Afternoon, without difcerning tlie hurt, till 
•* ( upon^his alighting ) he found his own Legs bloody, 
* and then difcerned the Wound, fomewhat behind the 
* Fore-legs, a little inclining to one fide ; and the Stake 
* which hurt him,was fince found bloody. A Farrier was 
*• then fent for, ( Thomas Bifhop the Younger of Wal- 
* lingfordi about five miles off, ) who chanced not to 
* be at home, but was gone to a place more than five 
*mile farther; fb that became not to Somdefs tilf after 
* ten of the Clock at Night. When he came, he fearch- 
* ed the Wound, with his Fifigcr, as far as be could 
* reach, and brought out with it fome Grafs, ne^vly 
^ chewed ; whereby he found plainly that it had pierced 
the Coats of the Ventricle,into the Cavity of the Maw; 
*' and was giving it over as defperate^and that it was to no 
* purpofe to proceed further. But then confidering that 
' ii^ Hoxk cpuld but dye, he, refolved to try< what 
might 
