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rated^ She was weak and much indifpos'd by rea(bn of j ts fr e* 
quent bleeding from a veflel out of our reach. About two hours 
after the writing above fign'd by Dr. Walter Needham^ ftie was 
taken with a vomiting^and her breaft bled^ I was fcnt for , 
and found her fwooniog, and the Women about her in much 
coofufioo* I took off the drcllings, and perceived one of 
the Arteries to bleed a little. I applied the French Effeoce^and 
ftoptitj but doming the ill confequcnce , ifitfhouid bleed 
again in the night 5 Ifccured that Artery by the touch of a 
hot IroD^ 
RiS.Wifeman» 
There was made a fourth Experiment by the fame Dr. Need- 
ham before the Society^ though there was then but a very 
fmall quantity of that liquor at hand. A Dogs Crural Artery 
was cut quite crofs withan Incifion-knife 5 the blood gufhing 
outcopioufly, a lint dipp'd in the faid liquor was applied to 
the wound, and held upon it a litle while $ when by reafoo 
of the great glut of blood , that could not be well wiped a« 
way for want of a fpung,(which made the Experimenter con- 
jefture, the application had not been cxa£lly made,) the line 
was chaugedfor a frcflione dipp'd in the liquor^ and keptoa 
about half an hour, and being then left looft, the blood was 
foon ftaunched^ whereupon the Dog being un-bound^ licked 
this wound^and walked away without any ligaturc,and is ftill 
found alive and well. 
An other Tryal was made before the fame Society by Moo- 
ficur Denys himfclf, Couniellor and Phyfitian in ordinary to 
the mod Ghriftian King, being come to London by his Ma- 
jefties orden In the€rural artery of an other Dog was made 
an oblique wide cut , and the Liquor in the ufual mauner 
being applied to it, the blood was ftaunched in 7 minutes, and 
the dog being then let loofe,but yet kept quiet for 2 5. minutes 
longer,he then arofe and let fall the applied coropre% and 
went away without any bandage. 
To thefe Experiments we cannot but add thofe that were 
very lately made at Whitehal before his Ma jefty himfclfp who 
liiiii 2 did 
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