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V. Some ObferVations upon Dr. Eaton’* Styptic 
By Dr. Sprcngell, 5 . Coll . Medl Lond. 
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T H dE Method of caring frefh Wounds in a few 
Days, without Suppuration, where neither 
Nerves, large Veffels, Bones, or any of the Vifcera 
were concerned, has been long ago obferved. Furman^ 
a famous Surgeon of Brejlaw , in his Chirurgia Curi- 
ofa , tells us of a Mountebank, who gave himfelf thir- 
teen Wounds, by Incifion, in the upper Part of his 
Left Arm, and thereupon applied his Noftrum , and 
with the help of a good Roller, was cured in two 
Days Time. Next he mentions a martial Sty ptick, 
which flopped bleeding incomparably, and healed freih 
Wounds (as he fays) in two Days time, elpecially if 
the Patient took withall a few Drops inwardly. This 
has like wife been mentioned by Blegny near thirty 
Years ago. 
When I came into France , I found that many little 
Trials were made there alio, with a Sty ptick Ball 
mixed with French Brandy, by (hiking a Cock thro’ 
the Head, opening the Crural-Artery of a Dog, or 
chopping off a Dog’s Leg, &c. But I found that it 
did not amount to any thing of Confequence ; yet I 
have Rill a Ball, made above twenty Years ago, of Fi- 
lings of Iron, and an equal Quantity of Tartar, mix’d 
well with French Brandy upon a Marble. This, with 
fomc Alteration, was afterwards publifhed by the fa- 
mous Helvetius , Phyficianto Lewis XIV. of France , 
in a Book called, Recueil des Methodes pour la Gueri- 
fbn des diver fes Maladies , which was reprinted in 
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