

MEMOIR 



PRESENTEDTOTHE 



ROYAL ACADEMY of SCIENCES 



November i8, 1750. 



Upon a mcft fpsedy mid infallible remedy to flop 

 blood in large divided arteries 'without a liga^ 

 ture. 



N order to flop the blood in accidental hse- 

 morrhages of the fmall vefTels, I had a no- 

 tion to try what effe6l the dufl of a certain 

 wild mufhroom, commonly called in France 

 VefTe-de-loiip *, and botanically Lycoperdon, 

 could have upon great divided arteries -, in the 

 cafe of accidents in bleeding, and in performing 

 amputations of limbs , I propofed therefore to 

 make my experiments on horfes. 



Having chofen proper fubjeds, I laid the 

 temporal artery bare in one, and di ided it 

 traniverfely half way •, the blood ftarted out 



* In England pufl'-b^lls. 



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