PHYSICAL AND LITEHARY. 513 



In the year 1762, while I was quar- 

 tered with the fecond battalion of the 

 Surry militia, ia the village of Wellen- 

 borough, county of Northampton, two 

 of our men happened to quarrel in an 

 alehoufe. In the fcuffle, one of them 

 ftrud the other fo violent a blow on the 

 breafl, that he fell down, feemingly dead. 

 I was immediately called to him ; and on 

 my arrival, which was in five or fix mi- 

 nutes after he had received the ftroke, 

 found him laid on a bed, without any ap- 

 pearance of refpiration, nor could I feel 

 any pulfe, either at his wrift, or any other 

 part of his body ; fo that I concluded 

 the circulation to be almoft intircly 



ftopt. 



In this fituation, I tied a ligature pret- 

 ty tightly round his arm ; but the vcia 

 did not fwell below it, as it ufually does 

 when the blood circulates in a proper 

 manner, which was a frefli proof of its 

 i\agnation. I made, however, a large 

 incifion into the vein in the ftate in which 

 it was, but no blood ifTued from it. 

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