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at this way, apply a button of lint or tow 

 to the mouth of the bleeding veflcJ, dip- 

 ped in a ftrong folution of blue vitriol, 

 ftyptic water, oil of vitriol, or hot oil of 

 turpentine, powdered vitriol, or colco- 

 thar, ^c. and remember always to apply 

 it clofe to the mouth of the bleeding vef- 

 fels, and take care that it is kept there 

 by proper comprefs and bandage till an 

 efchar is formed ; otherwife it will elude 

 your expedations, and frequently alarm 

 you with frelh bleedings. 



In a memoir prefented to the Royal Theeffi* 

 Academy of Sciences by M. La Fofle ^^^l_l[^^^^ 

 he gives an account of the fuccefs he had ^^ 

 met with in flopping the bleedings of 

 very confiderable arteries in horfes by 

 the application of the powder of puff- 

 balls, the arteries cicatrizing by this means 

 only, without any fucceeding hemor- 

 rhage. This Lycoperdon, or puff-ball, 

 was made ufe of for this purpofe in hu- 

 man fubjefts, about 160 years ago, by 

 Felix Wurtz, a famous old furgeon in 

 Germany -, but he does not feem to have 

 a thought of trufting to it in fuch confi- 

 derable arteries, as M. La Foffe mentions, 

 viz. thofe of the leg and thigh, the bleed- 

 ings from which divided veffels he ftopt 

 in a few minutes by the ufe of this pow- 



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