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Allenfon's method. During the operation I could plainly ^7^7* 
fee, that he and his pupils did not feem much pleafed with September, 
it; and he afterwards told me it was impofTibie it could 
ever anfwer. A very fhort fpace of time, however, made 
them of a different opinion; and in eighteen days after, 
when we failed, I had the fatisfadion to leave the patient 
with his flump nearly cicatrized, to the no fmall joy of the 
furgeon, who faid, that if the man had died, he fhould have 
been heavily cenfured for making him the fubjed of experi- 
ments. The circumftance of a man's leg being cut off, and 
almofl: healed in as many days as it generally takes weeks, 
foon became known, and added very much to the eflima- 
tion in which the people of this place held Englifh furgeons. 
Whenever I vilited the hofpital afterwards, the objects of pity 
with which it was filled, ufed to crowd around me in fuch 
a manner, and in fuch numbers, for my advice, that I found 
it difficult to get from them. And they now would readily 
have fubmitted to any operation I fhould have propofed; but 
as I faw the furgeon did not much approve of my inter- 
ference, I gave up all ideas of it. 
The harbour of Rio de Janeiro lies in 22'' 54.' fouth lati- 
tude, and 43° 19' weft longitude, about eighteen or twenty 
leagues 
