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out ; the drefiings were taken off, and then the 

 blood fprung out with great force -, the 

 aforefaid powder of the lycoperdon was ap- 

 plied, which was gently confined by his 

 hand only, for fix minutes, when upon taking 

 away his hand, the crural artery only bled 

 through the layer of powder upon the ftump ; 

 but this little ftream was two thirds fmaller 

 than before, by the application, but it grew no 

 bigger though let alone for fix minutes longer ; 

 then the Sieur la FofTe applied a pinch of the 

 powder to that little ftream, which he held on 

 with his finger about four minutes longer, and 

 the bleeding was flopped. In its place a little 

 elevation was very clearly obferved, pufhing 

 and retiring fuccefiively, and exactly corre- 

 fponding with the arterial pulfation. This ob- 

 fervation lafted a quarter of an hour, without 

 the leafl haemorrhage from any part -, the ftump 

 was then dreffed up with pledgets of tow, and 

 three days after we obferved at the extremity 

 of the artery a grume which plug'd up the 

 orifice, and over the grume a white tranfparent 

 fkin -, when this veffel was opened longitudi- 

 nally, we obferved the grume intire as it was -, it 

 was formed into a cone, the bafe of which was to 

 the divided end of the artery, which it clofed 

 exactly, the point or apex being turned inward, 

 and was elongated like a ftilet floating in the 

 arterial tube. The bafis projected about a line 



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