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or two concerning two other points of as great mo- 

 ment as thofe mentioned ; the firft is his applica- 

 tion of the powder of the Puff-balls to ftop the 

 blood in divided arteries, and the other is an im- 

 provement upon the manner of /hoeing horfes. 



As to the firft he has made fuch undeniable expe- 

 riments in cafes of amputation of limbs and other 

 parts, that the certificates of the Royal Academy 

 cf Sciences at Paris were readily granted him, as 

 will be feen in the fequel of his book -, and indeed 

 the great benefit of this difcovery does not ftop here ; 

 it will be extended to cafes of amputation in man- 

 kind, and be capable of taking away a confiderable 

 part of their pain as well as other accidents that 

 fometimes attend the ufual methods in furgery, of 

 providing againft dangerous hemorrhages. 



And in a word, the reader will find many cu- 

 rious remarks upon the methods of fijoeing, which 

 it were to be wifhed, our farriers will foon come 

 into ; and many precautions which cannot fail of 

 giving great fatisfatlion, as well as conduce very 

 much to the profit of all keepers of horfes. 



We muft inform the reader •, further that (as our 

 ingenious author has tranflated the chief part of Mr. 

 Bartlet's 12th chapter upon l he difeafes of horfes in 

 this book, we have thought it neceffary to tran- 

 fcribe the Englijh original here, becaufe it contains 

 the fcope of the Sieur la Voffe^s difcoveries upon 

 the glanders ; and becaufe Mr. Bartlet, befides 

 trepanning as our author mentions it for this dif- 

 eafe, direcls keeping open another hole, which he 

 calls the lower hole, with a leaden hollow tent, 



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