Gibney records a case in which the issue was not so successful, his patient being a man who, in a fall ten years previously, had ruptured the right quadriceps tendon, and four years later had suffered the same accident on the opposite side.

As a result of his injuries, at the time Gibney saw him, he had completely lost all power of extending the knee-joint.

Partridge mentions an instance, in a strong and healthy man, of rupture of the tendon of the left triceps cubiti, caused by a fall on the pavement.

There are numerous cases in which the tendo Achillis has recovered after rupture,--in fact, it is unhesitatingly severed when necessity demands it, sufficient union always being anticipated.

None of these cases of rupture of the tendon are unique, parallel instances existing in medical literature in abundance.
Marshall had under his observation a case in which the femoral artery was ruptured by a cart wheel passing over the thigh, and death ensued although there were scarcely any external signs of contusion and positively no fracture.