9? M E M O IR S of the 
flrong irritations in the members of the body 5 nor was the brain, 
r.nd its parts, freed from the farne morbid taint, which /hewed 
itfelf inthe unufual diftortion of the eyes, and an extraordinary 
fierceneis in the whole vifage, continual watchings, and a conftant 
trembling, with a repeated fnatching up of the lower jaw, making 
figns as if he would have bit at any thing that was offered him^ 
his voice had acquired a canine hoarienels, and much refembled 
the barking of a dog 5 he was befides infefted with the hickup, 
and a foaming at the mouth, and thus he continued for the moft 
part of the day ; upon prefenting a looking-glafs before him, he 
was extremely difordered thereat, throwing nis head backwards 
with great violence, barking, and ihapping at every thing near 
him 5 in the evening, notwithftanding all the alexipharmics that 
were exhibited, he funk under thole cruel fymptoms; he was 
not fuffered to be opened 5 but the Jbdomen was obferved to be 
exceflively inflated, his limbs convullcd, and the furface of the 
body was of a livid colour 5 the mufcles of the face were con- 
tra61ed into fuch a form, as -nearly reprefented a Spafmus 
Cynicus. 
B-^periments made ixith Mr. Colbatch's Styptic^ hy 'Mr. Will. 
Cowper. Phil. Trani: N° 2c8. p. 42. 
HAVING provided a large dog, an aperture was made thro' 
the common integuments of hYs Abdomen^ from which the 
fmall guts were extruded 5 after an inciiion made in one of them, 
according to its length, they were again reduced ^ the wound in 
the Ajdohien being i-litched up, a folution of Colbatch's powder 
was applied 5 the dog continued without any ill fymptoms, and 
became perfectly well in a few days after: The like experiment 
Mr. Coivper made on another dog, that alfb recovered without 
the application of any medicine. 
The leg of a dog was amputated three inches above the ^^- 
tella 5 the expence of blood from the arteries was great, which 
partly proceeded from the unaptncfs of the applications 5 but after 
two or three attempts, the flax of blood was flopped, and fuch a 
bandage ufcd, as was necefiary only to keep on the drefllngsj the 
dog continued without any confiderable flux of blood, and the 
next day he was found on his three legs. 
The difcaled arm of a man, in St. jSarthohme'w's Hofpitaly 
was amputated above the elbow j but for above a quarter of an 
hour's time, many fuccefslels applications of this llyptic were 
made, and at length a fmall tent, dipped in the powder itfelf, 
was inlerted into the extremity of the bleeding artery, before the 
