IMPROVED. 25^7 



In Cafes where any large Branch of an Artery is Artery 

 wounded, the Method is to feparate the mufcular larg^:. i^' 

 Flefh from about it, if it can be done with Safct)^ JJj^!;" j^'J'o 

 and by paffing a blunt, long, and crooked Needle ^e done. 

 with an Eye made in the Point, under the Artery 

 with double Silk waxed a little, the fame may be 

 tied ftrongly botli above and below the Wound or 

 Hole in the Blood Veflel ; and this Operation is 

 llyled fh Operation of an Aneurifm. But it mud 

 be confidered, it is much harder to be performed 

 upon a Horfe than a Man in feveral Parts of his 

 Body, for Reafons too tediows to enumerate. There- 

 fore, if Blood cannot be flopped by the Styptick I 

 have mentioned, I think 'tis in vain to attempt 

 farther. 



A proper Quantity of it fhould be laid upon the 

 Part, according to the Emergency ; and be fure you 

 always force it down, and hold it upon the very 

 VefTel that fpews out the Blood, if it can be done 

 outwardly*; if not, it may be given inwardly, as I 

 have already taught : And I dare fay it will hin- 

 der the Horfe from bleeding to Death, if an)^ thing 

 in the whole Univerie will \ feeing nothirg which 

 has yet been difcovered in the chymical Pharmacy 

 comes up to Preparations from Iron or Vitriol, for 

 flopping large Hemorrhages or Bleedings. 



I hope I need not tell the Reader, when any^^rj^at 

 Wound requires to be Hitched together, feeing his Wounds 

 own Judgment will eafily point out that to him : "^i'^y ^.^ 

 For, Wounds in the flefhy Part?, and when they ^^^^*-^^ '^' 

 happen according to the Direftion of the Fibres 

 commonly called the Leaders^ thefe are frequently 

 ftitch'd ; but it is otherwife amongit! the Tendons or 

 Sinews, Vvhich the Needle might prick, and da 

 more Hurt tiian the .firft Accident. 



AVhen a Tendon happens to be cut quite afUn- A Tendon 

 der, there is an Operation perfornvd which is ciiC, what's 

 called the flit chbig of a Tendon ; which is done ny^° ^^ '^""''-^ 

 laying one End over the other about half an Inch, 

 and {0 pafiing the Needle and waxed Silk two or 

 O 5 three. 



