TOL. VIII J PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. ' 71 



III. The Description and Use of Two Arithmetic Instruments, &c. By S. 

 Moreland. London, 1673, in 12mo. 



The ingenious author of this book, having some years since contrived two 

 instruments, whereof the one is for Addition and Subtraction, the other for 

 Multiplication ; gives us here both a description of the parts and structure of 

 these instruments, and the way and manner of using them. 



rV. A Brief Account of some Travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Mace- 

 donia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Friuli, &c. By Edward 

 Brown, M. D. of the College of London, R. S. and Physician in Ordinary to 

 his Majesty, London, 4to. 



The learned Traveller gives so good an account of the voyages he made 

 through those parts named in the title, that thereby he excellently instructs 

 others what great benefit may be made by travelling, if performed with curiosity 

 and judgment. 



Experiments made at London, with the Liquor mentioned in Numb. 94, (sent out 



of France), for Staunching the Blood of jirteries and Veins. N° 95, 



p. 6052. 

 " Mr. Wiseman * laid bare the jugular vein of a dog, and opened it with 

 a lancet, and immediately applied to it a button-pledget of lint dipped in 

 the liquor: he opened likewise the carotid artery, and applied a pledge after the 

 same manner. These pledgets being kept on by the pressure of the thumb about 

 a quarter of an hour, were then taken off; the vessels bled but not freely : 

 whereupon the pledgets were changed for fresh ones, and kept on a quarter of 

 an hour more ; being then first left loose, and afterwards taken off, the vein 

 and artery were united. 



The same day a young woman's breast being cut off, the arteries were stopped 

 by holding the like pledgets in their mouths, while the dressings were fitted for 

 the breast. The pledgets being then thrown off, the blood continued staunch, 

 and the mouths of the arteries remained close. 



While this latter operation was performing, a patient, whom Surgeon Wise- 

 man had newly dressed with a caustic stone in the neck, on some scrophulous 

 swellings, was brought back to us in a coach, having bled all the way, to the 

 wetting of almost a whole sheet. The vessel lay so deep that it was hard to 

 reach it. However Mr. Wiseman dipped two pledgets in the liquor, and thrust 



• Wiseman ranks among the earliest and best English Surgeons. He was Surgeon to Charles 

 II. His Chirurgical Tracts, making a folio volume, were published in \676; and besides gun-shot 

 wounds and the various surgical diseases, they contain excellent descriptions of scrophula and lues 

 venerea. 



