rather prefer ari eafy Sinuation, that will at laft lead 
him to the Grave. 
Since my prattifing Surgery, I have had feveral 
of thofe unhappy Perfons under my Hands, and even 
fome who were dearer to me than the reft of my 
Patients $ and I have had the Grief to fee them carried 
off in defpite of all the Refources my Attachment 
furniftied me with, and thofe my Profeftlon fug- 
gefted to me then, as generally ufed. Finding thefe 
latter inefficient by repeated Experience, my Imagi- 
nation at laft made me conceive a fort of hanging 
Cradle or Hammock , as reprefented in the Figure 
hereto annexed. In January 1 74 1 . 1 gave the Draught 
of this Machine to fome Workmen, having then 
under my Hands the Abbe de la Bucaille of this City 
of Roiian y a Perfon of a vaft Bulk, paralytic, and 
labouring under a Mortification about the Os Sacrum „ 
The following Explanation of the Figures will fhew 
the feveral Ufes of the Machine. 
Tab. 2. reprefents the Patient’s Bed-chamber with 
a Bed in it without the Bedding, in order the better 
to fhew the Machine. 
Upon it lies a fort of Boat of 'Turkey Leather, full 
as long as the Bed, with very ftrong Hems all round, 
and Eilet-holes for receiving Hooks, that ferve to lift 
up this Hammock. 
The Hooks are fattened to feveral Ropes, all which 
depend on as many Crofs-beams of very folid 
Wood. 
The Crofs-beams confift of one Beam of the 
Length of the whole Bed, running Lengthways over 
the Middle of it, and Four tranfverfe Beams, the Two 
middlemoft of which are fomewhat longer than the 
A a a 2 others* 
