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OT two concerning two other points of as great mo- 

 went as thofe mentioned ♦, the firfi is his applica- 

 tion of the powder of the PufF-balls to flop the 

 'hlood in divided arteries^ and the other is an im- 

 provement upon the manner of jhoeing horfes. 



As to the fir ft he has made fuch undeniable expe- 

 riments in cafes of amputation of limbs and other 

 parts^ that the certificates of the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences at Paris were readily granted him, as 

 will be feen in the fec[iiel of his book -, and indeed 

 the great benefit of this difcovery does not ftop here •, 

 // will be extended to cafes of amputation in man^ 

 kind, and be capable of taking away a conftderable 

 part of their pain as well as other accidents that 

 fometimes attend the ufual methods in furgery, of 

 providing againft dangerous hemorrhages. 



And in a word, the reader will find many CU' 

 rious remarks upon the methods of fhoeing, which 

 it were to be wifhed, our farriers will fo on come 

 into \ and many precautions which cannot fail of 

 giving great fatisfaEiion, as well as conduce very 

 much to the profit of all keepers of horfes. 



We miifl inform the reader, further that {as our 

 ingenious author has tranfiated the chief part of Mr, 

 Bartlet's i2th chapter upon the difeafes of horfes in 

 this book, we have thought it neceffary to tran- 

 fcribe the EnglifJj original here, becaufe it contains 

 the fcope of the Sieur la Foffe's difcoveries upon 

 the glanders ; and becaufe Mr. Bartlet, befides 

 trepanning as our author mentions it for this dif- 

 eafe, dire^s keeping open another hole, which he 

 calls the lower hole, with a leaden hollow tent, 



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