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MEMOIR 



PRESENTED TO THE 



ROYAL ACADEMY of SCIENCES 



November iS, 1750. 



Upon a mcfl fpeedy and infallible remedy to flop 

 blood in large divided arteries 'without a liga- 

 ture. 



IN order to flop the blood in accidental hae- 

 morrhages of the fmall vefTels, I had a no- 

 tion to try what effect the dufl of a certain 

 wild mufhroom, commonly called in France 

 VefTe-de-loup *, and botanically Lycoperdon, 

 could have upon great divided arteries ; in the 

 cafe of accidents in bleeding, and in performing 

 amputations of limbs ; I propofed therefore to 

 make my experiments on horfes. 



Having chofen proper fubjects, I laid the 

 temporal artery bare in one, and di ided it 

 traniverfely half way -, the blood ftarted out 



* In Englaod puff-balls. 



with 



