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it appeared very diilinclly to be a kind of mem- 

 Branous fack, like a funnel filled with blackifii 

 grumous blood : the internal convex furface of 

 the fack, fhewed, in tufts, a great number of 

 granulations like thofe of a wound beginning 

 to incarn ; as to the reft, all that interval of 

 the artery comprehended within the place 

 where the fack adhered to the divided extremity 

 was filled with grumes of lymph and blood, 

 without any regular order or figure, which had 

 neverthelefs fome adhefions to the artery. In 

 this cafe, the matter does not exadly anfwer 

 the Sieur la FofTe's narrative; but there is the 

 greateil reafon to fuppofe that the agitations of 

 the horfe after the amputation, had interrupted 

 the efforts of nature to form the grume ♦, and 

 indeed this obfervation ought to be looked up- 

 on as an exception to thole we fliall give the 

 following account of. 



In eight days after the amputation of the tail 

 of a young mare, there appeared no manner of 

 hcEmorrhage •, and when we dire6led M. la Foi& 

 to cut ofi' the thigh of the fame mare, about 

 tQu. inches above the ham, the blood fpurted 

 out with great rapidity from feverai arteries ; 

 and in order to try whether an application of 

 armenian. bole would not Hop it as well as zHq 

 puff-ball powder, we armed a pledget with the 

 bole, and applied it, fecuring it with a proper 

 bandage; two hours and a half after, though 

 the animal had not flirred, the blood dill iflued 



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