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fore feveral Gentlemen ; the Tindture was the lame, 
a deep Purple. I then precipitated the Contents with 
old Hock, and found the precipitated Matter to be the 
fame in both. Not contented with my own Enquiry, 
I fent feveral fmall Quantities to others, and went my 
felf to Mr. Godfrey , a famous Chymifl in Covent- 
Garden. They all told me, that there was no Diffe- 
rence betwixt them. I tryed feveral ways to find out 
its Balfamick Quality, from whence it has its Name, 
but found none. Then, I confefs, it furprized me, 
that a Man who had a mind to vend a thing as a Secret, 
had not done fo much as to alter it either in Taffe, 
Smell, or Colour ; and yet this might very well have 
been done, without robbing it of its Virtue in the 
lead. 
My next Bufinefs was to try thefe two upon the 
Crural- Artery, paving got a good middle-fiz’d Dog, 
Mr. Ranby , Surgeon, laid the Artery bare, and open’d 
it with a Lancet the length Way of the Artery, for 
near half an Inch. The old Trick ufed to be, to cut 
the Artery crofs ways, and then there was no neceffi- 
ty of a Styptick at all, nor indeed here neither. But 
at firft Helvetius his Tincture was applied, and flopped 
the Bleeding ; then we opened the Artery again, and 
tryed Dr. Eaton's , with the fame Succefs. I then had 
the Artery opened in the other Thigh, and tryed it 
only with French Brandy, which, 1 found, did as 
well as the other two. I opened the Artery again,, 
and had difiolved in French Brandy a little Sal Mart is 
and Saccharum Saturni , and applied that, and it an- 
fvvered in the fame manner. This made me immedi- 
ately conjecture, that there was but little Virtue fu 
either of them, but only that the Brandy, by its great 
Heat, did meerly contract the Fibres of the Artery, 
which, no doubt, might be a little affifled by theC/i^- 
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