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tioiis given by Mr. Warner in his book, and the haemorrhage was entirely 

 stopped in 6 minutes. He informed him that, on the 5th day inchisive, the 

 dressings and agaric came all off without force, and left the stump in a good 

 digested state, without the least appearance of blood; and that the pain, in con- 

 sequence of the operation, did not require an anodyne. He cut a boy for the 

 stone the same day, and a vessel bleeding rather more than is thought allowable, 

 he applied a very small piece of the agaric, and a soft dossil of lint over it, 

 which, with gentle pressure of the finger, restrained the bleeding in less than a 

 minute. His own patient, aged near 70, on whom he made trial of it, in am- 

 putating his leg below the knee, appeared as proper a subject to establish the 

 credit of this new styptic as could be produced, if it failed not in its efficacy ; 

 there being in him a great depravation of the fluids, and a general relaxation of 

 the solids; and he had an ulcer on his leg, of the phagedagnic kind, of many 

 years standing, attended with carious bones. Under these discouraging circum- 

 stances he applied to Mr. G. about a month before, and begged of him to take 

 off his leg; the pain, he said, being so violent and continual, that he knew not 

 how to live with it; and though he thought him a very bad subject for the 

 operation, yet he did not care to deny his most earnest request, seeing no other 

 possible means left of affording relief in his miserable condition. Considering 

 the rigidity of the fibres in an old person, and that their natural contractile 

 power, evident in the division of an artery, must be greatly weakened in this 

 case, Mr. G. was afraid, that the agaric, if it should answer, would not act so 

 expeditiously as it did in the other, and that probably they might meet with 

 much more difficulty in restraining the haemorrhage. Therefore, to assist it all 

 he could, he tacked it to thick compresses of lint with pieces of card in the 

 middle, thinking by that means he could apply it more readily, and keep it in 

 stronger and closer contact with the mouths of the vessels, if he should find it 

 necessary; for he was very solicitous for the support of its credit and reputation, 

 his own being connected in some measure with it, and the patient's welfare also 

 depending on it. He applied most of the pieces without being under a necessity 

 of having the tourniquet-ligature slackened, to show the mouths of the vessels; 

 then covered the stump thick with lint, applied a pledget of tow spread with 

 common digestive over it, and over that a circular piece of stiff paper, to make 

 the pressure of the palm of the hand more equal. This done, after 3 or 4 mi- 

 nutes he desired his assistant to slacken the tourniquet-ligature; on which it 

 bled at a great rate, and made some of his brethren soon imagine, and declare, 

 they thought it would not do in this case. Mr. G. was not without the same 

 fears; but went on with resolution, and every thing was conducted without hurry 

 or confusion. He desired to have the tourniquet-ligature let quite loose, in 

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