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out ; the drefTings were taken off, and tlien the 

 blood fprung out with great force ; the 

 aforefaid powder of the lycoperdon was ap- 

 plied, which was gently confined by his 

 hand only, for fix minutes, when upon taking 

 away his hand, the crural artery only bled 

 through the layer of powder upon the fliump ; 

 but this little fiiream was two thirds fmaller 

 than before, by the application, but it grew no 

 bigger though let alone for fix minutes longer ; 

 then the Sieur la Fofle applied a pinch of the 

 powder to that little ftream, which he held on 

 with his finger about four minutes longer, and 

 the bleeding was flopped. In its place a little 

 elevation was very clearly obferved, pufhing 

 and retiring fucceflively, and exad:ly corre- 

 fponding widi the arterial pulfation. This ob- 

 fervation lafied a quarter of an hour, without 

 the leaft hemorrhage from any part •, the flump 

 was then drefTed up with pledgets of tow, and 

 three days after we obferved at the extremity 

 of the artery a grumiC which plug'd up the 

 orifice, and over the grume a white tranfparent 

 fkin •, when this vefTel was opened longitudi- 

 nallv, we obferved the grume intire as it was ; it 

 was formed into a cone, the bafe of which was to 

 the divided end of the artery, which it clofed 

 exactly, the point or apex being turned inward, 

 and was elongated like a ftilet floating in the 

 arterial tube. The bafis projeded about a line 



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