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beyond the extremity of the artery, and was 

 fungous and rounded Hke a nipple, and cover- 

 ed with granulations like the little membranous 

 fack mentioned before. The point had a fmooth 

 furface, and was nearly equal to the internal 

 furface of the artery in confiftence ; the middle 

 part, which might be called the body of the 

 grume, was more red than the extremities, 

 which had but a very faint tindhure of the fame 

 colour : but it was firm, and was fo ftrongly at- 

 tached to the artery, that we could not pull them 

 afunder without tearing, and leaving a confi- 

 derable quantity of its fubflance behind, which 

 conilituted one body with the vefTel. We or- 

 dered another amputation of a horfe's flioulder, 

 and every thing anfwered in the fame manner, 

 as in the former experiment, except in a few 

 trivial circumflances ; which feemed indeed to 

 depend only upon the horfe's having died twenty 

 fix hours after the amputation : the grume in 

 this cafe was redder at the extremities, fhorter, 

 and lefs folid, nor did it adhere fo firmly to the 

 artery : but it is very plain that it wanted only 

 the horfe's living two days longer to have been 

 exadlly parallel to the former cafe. 



From what has been laid down, it may be 

 concluded that the Sieur la FolTe has advanced 

 nothing but the truth •, we agree, however, that 

 the ufe of this powder of the puff-bails for 

 flopping of blood was not wholly unknown, 

 but it is not certain that the blood which the 



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