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 EXTRACT of the REGISTERS 



OF THE 



Royal Academy of Sciences, 

 December 23, 1750. 



TH E Sieur la FofTe, Farrier to the king's 

 fiables, in the lafl memoir he prefented 

 to the academy, aflerts, 1. That by applying 

 the powder or dufl of the lycoperdon or puff- 

 balls to very confiderable divided arteries in horfes 

 the blood was flopped in a few minutes ; and the 

 arteries cicatrifed by this means alone, without 

 any fucceeding haemorrhage. 



2. That about twenty hours after the appli- 

 cation of this remedy, a membrane, or rather a 

 pellicule, or thin fkin, was obfervsd to cover 

 the extremity of the divided artery, with a 

 fmall grume which fhut up the mouth of the 

 fame artery. 



3. That the pulfation of the artery was very 

 diftinctly perceived in the place. 



4. That this grume was fhaped like a cone, 

 the bafis of which flopped up the orifice of the 

 divided veffel, and the point was turned inward 

 in the veffel . 



Thefe 



