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blood might more eafily flow that way, 
Iordered her alfo ten days after, an alo- 
etic purgative, to clean the prime vie, that 
the blood might find lefs refiftance in its 
courfe when determined to the uterus. 
Next day, after fhe had taken the purge, 
T went and faw her, and found it had o- 
perated four times. About feven o’clock 
that evening, I applied a comprefs and 
bandage to the crural arteries, at the fame 
place where they put the tourniquet in 
amputations of the thigh, but not fo 
tight as to endanger a mortification of 
the inferior extremities, At the fame 
time, I defired her to fit above the fteam 
of warm water. I intended to have ftaid © 
with her, to obferve the gradual effects of | 
the bandage; but unluckily wasfent forin | 
a hurry to fee another patient. I left | 
{trict orders with a woman, who was with — 
her, to untie the bandage, in. cafe fhe © 
complained of any difficulty of breathing, 
On my return, about twenty, minutes af- — 
ter, I found her in the fame fituation | | 
left: her. Her pulfe indeed beat about | 
fix ftrokes in the minute fafter than be- 
forg 
