( no ) 
Styptick, aftringenr, or confolidating Medicine, but 
meerly infrelh Wounds, and that only for afirftDref- 
fing, and where People lived at a Diftance, and could 
not get immediate Afliflance from a Surgeon. Befides, 
he makes feveral Exceptions where it Ihould not be 
uled ; and, in general, advifes it where Chalybeat Me- 
dicines may be made ufe of according to Experi- 
ence. 
But lad Year a Balfamick Styptick was publilhedby 
one Dr. Eaton , good to flop all manner of Bleeding 
without or within, and that without any manner of 
Exceptions. This made me defirous to fee it, and as it 
happened that foon after I had an Opportunity to ex- 
amine it : I found prefently that this was the fame old 
Medicine, which was got hither alfo, after other 
Countries had difearded it. But I negledfed it at that 
Time, as not worth my notice, till I law lately a Trea- 
tife of Confumptions, publifhed by Sir Richard Black- 
more , Kt. giving Dr. Eaton's Styptick the greateft 
Encomium , that ever was given to any Invention what- 
foever. For, fays he, E>r. Eaton\r Balfamick Styp- 
tick bids fair for the Credit of a certain Remedy in 
flopping of Blood outwardly or inwardly , where the 
Crafis of the Blood is not entirely ruined ; and will 
be of more Service to Mankind , than all the Difco - 
verier made by Galenical Compounders of Drugs , and 
Syftematical Methodifls. 
Finding this Remedy recommended in fo extra- 
ordinary a manner, by fo eminent a Phyfician, 
I began now to think, that poflibly I might have 
been miftaken, and therefore defired Mr. Win- 
terbottom , an Apothecary in Bow-Lane , imme- 
diately to prepare the Recipe , as deferibed by Helve- 
tins. When this was ready, I fent for a Bottle of Dr. 
Eaton's Styptick, and tryed them both with Galls, be- 
i fore 
