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Experiments made at London concerning the Liquor fent out of 
Fraocej vphichts there famous for iiaunching of the blood of 
Arteries as well as Veins 5 of mhich fee Numb. 94. 
May 30. 1673. 
I. A Dog had the skin of his neck flit open and flaid by 
£ \ %iv. Serjeant Wifeman ^ fo that the jugular vein lay 
bare* He then with his lancet open'd it, and immediately 
applied to it a button- pledget of lintdipp'd in that liquor. 
This being done, he took up the Mufcles on the other fide of 
the throat 3 and divided them till he came to the Carotid Ar- 
tery. Thishe like wife open'd with his lancetj and applied a 
pledge after the manner aforefaid. Thcfe Pledgets, being 
kept on by preflhrc of the thumb about a quarter of an hour, 
were then taken off.The Veflcls bled, but not freely : Where- 
upon the pledgets were changed for frefh ones , and kept on 
a quarter of an hour more, being then firft left loofe, and 
afterwards taken off , the Vein and Artrry were &tiit and fol- 
der 'd. together. 
2^ The fame day a young Womans breft befog by the fame 
Chirurgioncut offi the -^Herie/ were ftopp'd by holding the 
like pledgets in the mouths of them whilft the dreflings were 
fitted fof the brcaft. The pledgets being then thrown off] the 
blood continued ftaunch^ and the mouths of the Arteries re- 
mained clofe* 
3. Whilft this later operation was pcrforcning 3 a Patient, 
whom Serjeant had newly dreflcd with a Cauftick 
Stone in the neck (upon fome Scrophulous fwelliogs, J Avas 
brought back to us in a coachjhaviog bled all the way to the 
wetting of almoft a whole (beet. The veflel lay fo deep that 
it was hard to reach it^ Howeverj Mr. Wifeman dipped two 
pledgets in the liquor aforefaid^ and thruft them into the two 
orifices whence the blood carne^ It was immediately ftoppd 
aod the neck drefs'd up without any confidcrable bandage^ 
IP alter Needham^ 
The Woman, v^ofe breaft I cut off, came out of the coun- 
try to mcon Wedncfday laft^ labouring under a Cancer ulce* 
rated. 
