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up and healed, by an effufion of coagulating lymph from 
their inflamed lips, fo as to occafion but little or no ob{tru@tion 
in the canal of the artery. 
portion Se eae! on the ftretch, fo that it either is torn, or 
Punctures in arteries, when they heal, are clofed by lymph, 
wound of the veffel, 
bleeding from wounded arteries of a certain fize is fupprefled, 
with button, or pointed extremities, fo that he may always 
have one, whieh will be adapted to the mouths of the veffels, 
without being i 
away with the 
-jnftrument, and the patient undergo pain to no purpofe, the 
When the cautery 
_ was of 2 moderately glowing heat, the old furgeens ufed to 
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without the interference of furgery. They will alfo qualify 
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take it out of the fire,. ftrike it again{t the grate, and rubs it, 
end againtt the floor, after which its extremity was immedi-. 
ately clapped upon the mouth of the artery, and turned two 
or three times round upon it 
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pain, while the mifchief, neceffarily produced by it upon the 
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from bleeding, many wounds were rendered fatal by the ad- 
ditional injury, which unavoidably arofe from fearing the 
efh with burning irons. As Mr. John Bell remarks, * the 
horrors of the patient, and his ungovernable cries, the hurry 
of the operator and affiftants, the {fparkling of the irons, 
and the hiffing of the blood again{t them, muit have made 
terrible ‘fcenes, and furgery mutt in thofe days have been 
a horrid trade.”” 
«¢ For one wound, and efpecially for the amputation of a 
limb, many cauteries were required.’? —Parée, in his {pirited 
reply to Gourmaline, favs to him, ‘if, fir, in a fiege, orin 
the affault of a city, where hundreds of foldiers have their 
limbs fhattered, -you fhould choofe to cauterize with burning 
irons, you would need a page to run backwards and forwards 
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earlieft furgeons in Rome.” Principk 
p. 151. : a 
After this account, it is fearcely neceffary for us to fays 
that the actual cautery i 
veffels. canttics, ftimulating things, and hot oil.’ Thefe were _ 
termed potential cauteries. In this way, even melted nd 
phur and lead, and boiling oil of turpentine, were er 
The latter was a very favourite application. Kettles © 
readinefs in the cockpit 
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however, was blue vitriol, which was applied in the poe 
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jut as the aétual cautery did, and may be regarded as 
having afimilar mode of operation. — Sac te alle 
“ We are to judge of thefe cauteries, boiling a hee of 
corrofive fublimate, and other cauftics, not by the the 
