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3. Of m other Dog the Flanc was cut with a pec-koife; 
which did penetrate into the Liver. The fame knife was run 
into the groin of another Dog, and a Vein, Ncrf and Artery 
cut together to imitate the flafhing of a Sword, and to fee the 
effcft of this fanative water in that cafe. ^ All thefe wounds 
were fpeedily cured , without any ill accident to thofe Aci- 
mals. 
4»To fee^what this EfTcrce would perform in cafes of whole 
Limbs quite cut off, which fometimes ^rnuft be done to prevent 
Gangrenes 3 a Dog was taken and one of his Legs altogether 
cut off, and a comprefs of lint, melted with the Eflenccjlaid 
upon the cut Veins and Arteries. At the end of a quarter of 
an hour the comprefs was taken off J and alfo the Bandage, 
that held it againft the ftump of the Leg cut 5 and the bloud 
was found fo ftaunched^as if no veflel had been open'd in that 
part^ 
5. Thefe Experiments having fo well fueceeded upon Brutes» 
and been repeated over and over with the like fuccefs, no 
fcruple was then made to try the Liquor upon Men.Firfl,th€rc 
were opened Veins upon Arms, as is done in ordinary Phlebo» 
tomiesj and a Lint dippd in the Liquor having been held on 
the wound half a quarter of an hour, the Veins were fonnd 
fo pcrfeftly clofcdjas they are wont to be in the common way 
after 24. hours. An other being bled in the Temporal Arte- 
ry , and the like application made , he went abroad, and took 
a turn in Town without any comprefs, or bandage, the Artery 
never opening again. 
6. The fame Eflfencchath alfo been very (iiccefifuUy ufed in 
Fluxes of bloud , giving it at the Mouth in ptifane : And 
furprifing efFefts of it have been feen in cafes of Bleeding at 
theNofe j feeing that as foon as a pledget of lint,moifl:en*d 
with thisJiquorjWas put into the noftrils, the bloud was ftop'd, 
after thofe had been tired out, who to no purpofe had tryed 
all the other common remedies. 
7. Some Ghirurgions have with good fuccefs made ufe of 
this water.-For having ufed it only twice upon ftveral wounds, 
as a Head broken by a fall upon a pavement ; a great cut in 
■the Hand 5 a Leg wounded by the flinging of a Stone , i^r. 
they 
