( 6o54 ) 
did appoint the 7oih. of June laft to make Expcriraents of iti 
when two Calvcsjof the bigger fort by his Ma jefties commaacj 
were brought into the Banqueting houfe 5 of one of which the 
Crural Artery being laid bare, it was cut ©pen longsway s with 
a lancet and prcfently a lint dipped in the faid Eflence appli- 
ed to the wound. The blood was ftopp'd in about a quar- 
ter of an hour \ but the animal being big and ftrong, and ftri- 
ving continually to get up, the artery broke out again, where* 
upon a fre(h lint, dipped in this healing water, was laid on 
again. The blood was at length fo ftopp'd, that about the 
end of two hours the beaft rofejWalked about the houfe with* 
out loofing any blood more, though the wound had no ban- 
dage on it. 
Of the other Calf the butcher CAit off quite one of his legs 
as high as he could, and the blood ruftiing out impctuoufly 5 
a comprcfs of lint dipp'd in the Eflence was prefently applyed 
to the parr* Here more care was taken than before, of kee- 
ping the Animal quiets andaboutthe end of a Quarter of 
an hour the blood was found perfectly ftauncb Several of 
the Kings PbyGtians and Ghirurgions did examine the 
wounds after the blood was ftopp'd and found them clear 
without any efcarr 3 and his Majefty himfelf declared publick^ 
ly to be very well fatisficd with it* 
But the!e Experiments being made only upon Beafts^ in this 
place, and fomeof our Englifti Ghirurgions, there prefent , 
doubting, whether it would do well upon MeOjTryals are to 
be made to fatisfie that doubt 3 of which an account maybe 
expedied by the next. 
Experiments made at V^ns with the fame Liquor at they an 
defcribed M^nfieur Dims in his iith. Confer ence^ printed 
in French at Paris April go* i67j . <jf pphicb the Jkhjiance here 
follows in Englifc. 
^^TpHIS Author 5 having firft memionM the ways hitherto 
JL received and commonly ufed, in flopping the bloud of 
prickt or cut Arteries ; as that with a Tfarcd and Needle, the 
touch of an hot IroD^ the application of Vitriol or other 
rotiqmsj 
