which Mr Stringer fufFer'd with extraordinary Fortitude, 
Be not* fo much expreffing the lead Outcry during the 
Oferation^ tho the part did not want the moft exquifite 
fenfe of feehng : On the Abfcifion (which was about five 
or fix Inches below the Knee ) it was unexpcded, by me, I 
muft confefs,to fee foHttle Blood fpouting trom th^ Arteries. 
The Stump being bound up, and committed to the Hands 
of two or three Servanjts, a lefs number nor being fufficient 
to hold it, by reafon fuch ftrong Convulfive motions pur- 
fued the part on the Operation. I v/as very defirousto exa- 
min the Jr/mV/ of the Amputated Leg, having before difco- 
vered the Caufe ot a Mortification of the Arm of a Toung Gen^ 
tlewomdn;sN\\o dy*dnot long after an Amputation of the part, 
tho t\\^Gdngreen did not appear to reach near the place where 
the Abfcifion was made: ( i.e. below the endings of the 
Mufcdm Deltoides) In winch Cafe^ I found the fides of the 
Trunk of the Artery o{ the Arm fo thickn'd, that the Dia- 
meter oi its Bore was Contra&ed to lefs than a third part, 
and would fcarce admit a Common Probe to pafs it, vid. 
Fig. G. H.L When I had found the ends of the Arteries 
in the Leg above-mention'd, I endeavour*d to pafs my 
Probe into one oi them^ but meeting with fome oppofirion, 
i fufpcfted I had miftaken the Vein for the Artery^ and that 
the Valves uppofed the pa fling of the Probe that way ^ but 
on further difleftion I clear'd the Trunks of both thofe 
Blood VelTels, and found the Veins m their Natural ftare^ 
but the fides of the Jr^erw were grown Bony or Stony 
having cleard two of their Trunks y I left one of them at 
Salkhury^ the other I brought to Town, and is here Figured. 
A The Upper part of the Artery cut off in the Ampu» 
tation of the Leg ^ from A to 
B The Trunk of the Artery diftended and dry'd to fhew 
its Canal. 
J C That part'of the Trunk of the Artery which was fo 
conf rafted by the Petrifaftion or Oflification, that a Probe 
would not pafs its Canal 5 From C to 
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