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In this lamentable condition I was fcnt for, and af- 
ter examination of the Wound, and confidering the 
great Flux of Blood, I was not more furprifed at any 
thing than that the Patient was then alive. There 
feem'd to be no manner of hopes, nor the leaft pro- 
fped of Recovery : however, in order to an attempt, 
I endeavoured to fupprefs the Hemorrhage, and to join 
the divided parts. 
Lifothjmies came frequently upon the Patient, efpc- 
daily upon every little motion of his Body, and gave 
great interruptions to the Methods of Chirurgery, 
and leflen'd our hopes of a Cure. His frequent Lifo- 
thjmks were after fome time fucceeded byConvulfions, 
and then indeed I thought his Thread of Life very 
near an end. 
Another gcear difSculty arofe from the parts of the 
Trachea being now at a vaft diftance from each other. 
The lower part being every turn of Infpiration funk 
deep into the Neck as low as the CUvicuU, and juft 
appeared upon every Expiration. 
To furmount thefe Difficulties, and particularly to 
fecure fafl: hold of the lower part of the Tr/ichea, \ or- 
dered a lufty ftrong Fellow, then preftnt, to hold the 
Legs of the Patient over his Shoulders, and by this 
means raife them, together with the Abdomen, above 
the thorax, Collum, ^c. in which Pofture the divided 
parts came fo near to each other , that with ftrong 
waxen Thread I few'd together feveral of them : but as 
to the Divifions of the Trachea, I fecured them tog<^ 
ther by paffing large Needles deep into the Fieili on 
each fide, and twilling ftrong waxen Thread about 
them as in labio fffo. Over ail, for greater fecurity, 
I applied a Reftridive (ex pdv. rejlring, Clowes) cover- 
ing the greateft part of the Neck with a Defenfative, 
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